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Government Tracking Students from Preschool to Workforce

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“The $100 million repository that will catalog all the information is called inBloom, an initiative funded primarily through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.  The Department of Education is in the finishing stages of building a system to share student data with colleges and six other state agencies—a program known as ‘P-20.’ Some of the other agencies that may have access to the data by 2015 include the Department of Labor, Health and Taxation and Finance, and the offices of Technology and Children and Family Services.  In addition to money from the Gates Foundation, the DOE has received $40 million from state and federal agencies.”

http://www.alternet.org/education/scary-new-surveillance-state-idea-government-tracking-students-preschool-workforce

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Majority of US college campuses becoming ‘no-free-speech’ zones

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“About one out of every six enforced ‘free speech zone’ policies – legislation that limits student protests and other ‘expressive activities’ to small and isolated parts of campus.  The report provided some examples of free speech policies that they say infringe on First Amendment rights. The University of Southern Mississippi, for example, requires students to hold their demonstrations in one designated ‘Speakers’ Corner’ unless they register the demonstration at least one month in advance of the event.  Longwood University in Virginia limits speeches, demonstrations and literature distribution to one location, and requires the area to be reserved five days in advance.”

http://rt.com/usa/first-amendment-us-law-colleges-029/

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Everybody Panic!

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“A middle school in Portsmouth, R.I. recently sent parents an alarming e-mail about kids who are ‘snorting’ or ‘smoking’ Smarties, a silly fad in which kids grind up the tart candy into a fine powder, then blow out the vapor as if they were smoking. (Full disclosure: I used to do something similar when my breath would freeze on frosty mornings.)  Yet everyone is worried. Portsmouth School Committee Chair Dave Croston asserts that the fad ‘would not be normal behavior’ (God forbid!), and raises the ‘troubling issue of modeling.’  The Smarties story is just one of a series of mini-panics about kids and substance abuse that seem to get recycled every few years.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/01/20/everybody-panic/

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British university accepts course fees in Bitcoin

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“The University of Cumbria has become the first public institution of its kind to accept its fees in bitcoins – at least, for two courses that specifically deal with currency innovation.  Located in England’s scenic Lake District, the university counts among its many courses a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Leadership and a Certificate of Achievement in Sustainable Exchange, both offered through its recently-established Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS). For these two courses, it is trialling payment by Bitcoin, via a transaction service such as Bitpay.  A private university in Nicosia, Cyprus, has already said it will accept Bitcoin for everything from course fees to cafeteria meals.”

http://gigaom.com/2014/01/21/british-university-accepts-course-fees-in-bitcoin/

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How should states fight the NSA? Turn off the water, say some

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“Two California state senators have introduced a bill that would stop state agencies from assisting the National Security Agency to collect ‘any electronic data or metadata… not based on a warrant.’  In addition to stopping state agencies and officials from helping with warrantless surveillance, it would ban corporations that do business with the state from offering such assistance. That could leave the large telecom companies in a legally difficult position: following orders from the federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court would put them them in violation of state law.  Another proposal pushed by the Tenth Amendment Center is the idea of barring the NSA from recruiting at public universities.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/how-should-states-fight-the-nsa-turn-off-the-water-say-some/

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Oklahoma Student Expelled for Casting a Spell

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“An Oklahoma high school suspended a 15-year-old student after accusing her of casting a magic spell that caused a teacher to become sick.  The American Civil Liberties Union said it had filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of student Brandi Blackbear, charging that the assistant principal of Union Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, suspended her for 15 days last December for supposedly casting a spell. The suit also charged the Tulsa-area Union Public Schools with repeatedly violating Blackbear’s civil rights by seizing notebooks she used to write horror stories and barring her from drawing or wearing signs of the pagan religion Wicca.”

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95218&page=1

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11 Good Things for Liberty in 2013

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“As 2013 draws to a close, let’s pause to recall some important developments for the cause of liberty – some of which you already know well, and others you’ll be hearing about for the first time.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/lew-rockwell/13-good-things-for-liberty-in-2013/

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Life in the Emerging American Police State: What’s in Store for 2014?

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“We in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again—egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, etc.—although with far fewer moments of comic hilarity.  What remains to be seen is whether 2014 will bring more of the same or whether ‘we the people’ will wake up from our somnambulant states. Indeed, when it comes to civil liberties and freedom, 2013 was far from a banner year. The following is just a sampling of what we can look forward to repeating if we don’t find some way to push back.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/life_in_the_emerging_american_police_state_whats_in_store_for_our_free

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Forget cursive: Teach kids how to code

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“Name the last time, besides your signature, that you wrote or read anything in cursive.  Chances are that you can’t. Neither can the National Governors Association, which left it out of the new Common Core educational standards. In response, seven states — California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Utah — are writing cursive requirements back into the curriculum.  ‘Modern research indicates that more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard,’ Idaho state Rep. Linden Bateman (R) told the Associated Press. ‘It’s beyond belief to me that states have allowed cursive to slip from the standards.'”

http://theweek.com/article/index/252851/forget-cursive-teach-kids-how-to-code

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Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College (Full Interview)

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“‘If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit,’ says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs.  He stesses that he’s ‘got nothing against college’ but believes it’s a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability. Between Mike Rowe Foundation and Profoundly Disconnected, a venture with heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Rowe is hoping both to help people find new careers and publicize what he calls ‘the diploma dilemma.'”

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