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This is John Stossel's show aired on Fox Business network on February 18, 2010. He discusses here the state of US education and negative impact teachers' unions have on it.

John Taylor Gatto speaks about the education system and the modern culture on Red Ice Radio.

John Paff, Chairman of the NJ Libertarian Open Government Advocacy Project (see http://njlp.org/news/partynews/opengovernment) describes how the Bridgeton, NJ Board of Education treats the public during their public meetings. He criticizes them for violations of Open Public Meeting Act violations.

Instead, for Thiel, the bubble that has taken the place of housing is the higher education bubble. “A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed,” he says. “Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It’s like telling the world there’s no Santa Claus.”

Republican Sen. Rand Paul may not have the clout in Congress to reach his goal of eliminating the Department of Education, but he can do a close second: shut down the Senate committee trying to pass sweeping new federal education legislation.

With the potentially-marijuana-legalizing Prop 19 debate raging in California, Bill O’Reilly brought in his go-to libertarian John Stossel to debate the issue on the Factor tonight. You’ll never believe this one, but O’Reilly wants it to get voted down (he thinks the measure will fail), while Stossel wants it to pass (and he thinks it will do so).

The producer of Stupid in America, John Stossel, broadcasts another outstanding documentary "Illegal Everything" which shows how nearly everything is (or may soon be) illegal - including lemonade stands, raw milk, drugs, fast food, prostitution, recording police, and more.

John Stossel on FOX Business does a show on Ayn Rand's book Atlas Shrugged, which was written over 50 years ago, and is a best seller today.

In testimony to Congress Wednesday, US Education Secretary Arne Duncan made a startling claim: This year, up to 82 percent of public schools could "fail" the government's "No Child Left Behind" standards.

"No Child Left Behind is broken and we need to fix it now," he said, according to a transcript provided by the Department of Education.