Daily Headlines: April 1, 2010

Posted by The Mere Academic | Arkansas, Education, Politics, Random Riffs | April 01, 2010

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Welcome to Spring .. Some Interesting News is Hitting the Wire Today.  Read on ….

Progressive School District in Mississippi Planning “Straight-Free” Prom

  • Ricky Martin and Toby Keith will headline the afterparty

Teacher Union Leader Comes Clean: “We don’t really care about children!”

  • NEA general counsel Bob Chanin admits surprise — “Frankly, I can’t believe we had people going this long … I just had to tell!”


 

Texas Removes All References to Arkansas in State Textbooks

  • State’s lead educator argues that “like evolution, the claim that there are fifty states is merely a theory.”

 

Max Brantley of the Arkansas TimesCaught Shopping at Wal-Mart

  • Sources close to the Arkansas Times admit that Brantley is also an avid Glenn Beck listener.

Nation’s 4th Graders Continue to Trail Nation’s 5th Graders

  • Experts fear this will continue into grade 6
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Comments (1)

Funny, except the video about teacher’s unions isn’t a parody, it’s real!