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Rosen: Intellectual child abuse (Jay Bennish)
Rocky Mountain News ^ | March 10, 2006 | Mike Rosen

Posted on 03/10/2006 3:34:40 AM PST by beaversmom

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To: mewzilla

The closest thing to geography that I could find in his syllabus is "cultural landscape".........whatever THAT is.


21 posted on 03/10/2006 4:46:04 AM PST by Carolinamom (I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. ---Ronald Reagan)
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To: mewzilla

Yes, because those liberal wimps at NPR only have two conservatives per liberal guest, when anyone knows that liberals can win against 2 to 1 odds, easy.

It's a shame there's no countering point of view from the heritage foundation, the Wall Street Journal, or the P.N.A.C. to help balance out those places where the conservatives only have a 2 to 1 advantage, because . . oh, wait, they're listed? and Wikipedia shows many of these other institutions are . . . centrist? almost as if they didn't have a specific agenda?

Wow - NPR, the BBC, and the Times versus the Journal, PNAC, and the Heritage foundation, with the Brookings intitution to ref. A balanced debate - almost exactly 1 to 1.

Unfair - A horrendous advantage to the Liberals!

CD


22 posted on 03/10/2006 5:18:51 AM PST by CognitiveDissonance001
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To: beaversmom

Looking at President George W. Bush's overall job performance this term, what grade would you assign to him?
Choice Votes Percentage of 1535 Votes
A 70 5%
B 89 6%
C 114 7%
D 249 16%
F 1013 66%

Freep here:
President Bush. What's his grade?
http://www.nbc5.com/index.html


23 posted on 03/10/2006 5:21:57 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: mewzilla
Oh yeah lots of balance. This heading from an article in www.indymedia.org

US/Israel plan nuclear attack on Iran to control oil and defend the dollar .

24 posted on 03/10/2006 5:26:40 AM PST by mware (A teacher of geography.)
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To: DustyMoment

Of course not - there is of course no connection between geography, and any desire to understand a culture, or politics, or history, or anything slightly political.

In which case, one has to ask - why are we bothering to teach the geography, if it's completely disconnected from anything important? If geography is nothing but the location of the country, it's a lot cheaper to reference the CIA worldbook, Google Maps, or Worldwind than to go to all the effort of, y'know, teaching a course.

CD


25 posted on 03/10/2006 5:26:42 AM PST by CognitiveDissonance001
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To: beaversmom
First of all what does 'presenting balanced viewpoints' have anything to do with geography!?! Is there some disagreement or dispute whether China is in Asia, Italy is in Europe and Casper Wyoming is in North America? Nope, don't think so.

Ergo, in geography there are no 'balanced viewpoints', only facts - "A" is here and "B" is there -- period.

26 posted on 03/10/2006 5:27:16 AM PST by Condor51 (Better to fight for something than live for nothing - Gen. George S. Patton)
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To: beaversmom
Rush played some audio of Bennish using the terms... mental-mapping and cultural landscape for his high school course in Geography. That was all I needed to know about this commie-stooge... or better put... pedopropagandile.
27 posted on 03/10/2006 5:33:31 AM PST by johnny7 (“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
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To: CognitiveDissonance001

In the late 60's, college geographers produced the High school geography project in an effort to upgrade the content of secondary classes. It introduced concepts that would be used in marketing and regional planning. Place geography can be mastered in elementary school. In the fifties we had a book for each continent and did one a year. Later, I taught geography in high school and college based on what I learned in grammar school.


28 posted on 03/10/2006 5:36:04 AM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: beaversmom

"Child abuse" nails it. The man's a bully.


29 posted on 03/10/2006 6:06:19 AM PST by aculeus
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To: mewzilla
www.zman.org


30 posted on 03/10/2006 6:33:53 AM PST by RightWingAtheist (Creationism Is Not Conservative!)
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To: mewzilla
lol. Reminds me of the sheets of paper the "peace movement" was handing out at all the colleges in lead-up to WOT listing the "liberal, moderate and conservative" journos and talk radioers.

Thank you for sharing this data with me. Yep, no bias in Bennish, not. lol.

31 posted on 03/11/2006 3:51:20 AM PST by Alia
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