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Puerto Rico NAEP SCORES - Who is to blame?
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Puerto Rico Demographic Winter
Puerto Rico birthrates fell by 3.8 percent in 2009 and marriages dropped by 13.2 percent from 2007 to 2008. According to the 2010 Census, Puerto Rico’s population fell by 2.2 percent from 3,808,610 in 2000 to 3,725,789 in 2010.
Read More »Diálogo Ininteligente
by Philip Pennance A response to Daniel R. Altschuler”s article Diseño Inteligente Ininteligible Albert Einstein “The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer”. In what follows the sections of Dr. Altschuler’s article are in italics followed by comments in bold font. …
Read More »Apelación a La Junta Universitaria
En la Ley de la Universidad de Puerto Rico se destaca su obligación de servicio al pueblo de Puerto Rico y su debida fidelidad a los ideales de una sociedad integralmente democrática. Conscientes de esto, y dadas las razones que se expresan a continuación, hacemos un llamado a las altas …
Read More »Brain Death – The Hoax That Won’t Die
by Earl E. Appleby, Jr. Whether you are classified as dead or alive depends upon your attending physician’s understanding of the concept of death. The radical departure from the traditional cardiorespiratory standard of death inherent in “brain death” has, in Capron and Kass’s words, brought “extramedical concepts to the forefront …
Read More »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 bioethicist has not proposed it. — Anthony Daniels A controversy has arisen in the local media concerning advertisements for egg donors which have appeared in “Diálogo” a University of Puerto …
Read More »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 las calculadoras es necesario que repensemos si se justifica tanto tiempo en la enseñanza de esos algoritmos. —Ana Helvia Quintero (Subsecretary of Education) “We are on the road to producing …
Read More »Unmasking the Strategy to Legalize Abortion throughout Latin America
Just a few hours before the vote by the Constitutional Court on a case which will legalize abortion in Colombia, the Documentation and Analysis team of HazteOir (HO), a web based civil association based in Madrid, issued an exhaustive report on the strategy being employed by a group of international …
Read More »Environmentalism
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles,values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes,but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issuesthat have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on theway ahead. What great cause would have been …
Read More »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 run by the Dominican Order will henceforth adopt a constructivist philosophy of education. It is stated that the goal of this project is to “develop in the student a healthy …
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