Arizona State: Obama Undeserving of Honorary Degree

The Arizona State University is  being granted the honor of having Barack Obama, the president of the United States, give its commencement address, and has decided not to award President Obama an honorary degree, as is the tradition for graduation day speakers.
ASU Media Relations Director Sharon Keeler says, unlike other universities, the processes for selecting [...]

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The Heinlein Maneuver: Citizenship

 
Young people today have large and disturbing gap in their knowledge of history and civics.

One-third of fourth graders do not know what it means to “pledge allegiance to the flag.”
Twenty-eight percent of eighth graders do not know the reason why the Civil War was fought.
Nearly one in five high school seniors think that Germany was [...]

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