Tag Archives: Puerto Rico

Latest Puerto Rico NAEP Math Scores —No Sign of Improvement

Figure 1. NAEP Math Scores for Puerto Rio at grade 4, by content area: 2007 Figure 2. NAEP Math Scores Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on June 7, 2010 – 9:36 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Education | Comments Off

La Huelga y El Visitante

Sorprende el lenguaje, y el análisis subyacente, de la reciente columna “Seamos solidarios” del Director del Visitante, Jaime Torres Torres. Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on May 31, 2010 – 9:58 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Catholic | Comments Off

San Juan – Marcha por los No Nacidos 2010

Comité Nacional por la Vida MISA y MARCHA POR LA VIDA Lunes 18 de enero de 2010 Programa 08:00 am Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on December 27, 2009 – 10:51 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Pro Life | Comments Off

Photos: San Juan March for Life 2009

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By Pennance Posted on February 12, 2009 – 9:12 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Pro Life | Comments Off

The cost of human eggs – Warning to Puerto Rico students

There is nothing so foolish that some philosopher has not said it, and there is nothing so evil that some Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on October 21, 2007 – 9:42 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Abortion, Pro Life, Science, Things Dysfunctional or Evil | Comments Off

Puerto Rico NAEP Results -Why the wheels of education don’t turn

El currículo actual le da mucho énfasis a los cálculos aritméticos (sumar, restar, multiplicar y dividir). Con lo accesible de Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on April 3, 2007 – 3:49 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Education | Comments Off

San Juan March for Life 2007 — Report

The pro-life march was a great success. Many more —mainly young— people turned out than last year. The march was Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on March 4, 2007 – 3:40 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Pro Life | Comments Off

University of Puerto Rico – Abandon hope all ye who enter here

“By definition, now, there is no learning, because truth is dismissed as an old-fashioned superstition. Instead … there is perpetual Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on December 11, 2005 – 3:15 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Education, Things Dysfunctional or Evil | Comments Off

Virus of Constructivism Threatens Puerto Rican Catholic Education

In the February 20, 2005 issue of the Puerto Rican Catholic Weekly El Visitante it was announced that Catholic schools Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on March 25, 2005 – 10:24 am | Posted in pennance | Also tagged Catholic, Education | Comments (0)

Fuzzy Math in Puerto Rico

Worried about the education of your children? You should be. One of the following “Mathematics” exercises was intended as a Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on January 25, 2005 – 5:14 pm | Posted in pennance | Also tagged Education | Comments Off

San Juan March for Life 2005 — Pro-abortion bias in the San Juan Star

Saturday January 22 was the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, a 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion up Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on January 22, 2005 – 10:41 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Abortion, Pro Life | Comments Off

Boring Students to Death

In the 2002 Puerto Rico Department of Education Mathematics Standards, which adhere to a, so called, constructivist philosophy of education, Continue Reading →

By Pennance Posted on January 8, 2005 – 5:00 pm | Posted in pennance | Also tagged Education | Comments Off