D > B
At one Nashville high school, 29 percent of students who earned a B in algebra flunked the state algebra test; at two magnet schools, 100 percent of D students passed. Grades aren’t reliable indicators of performance, reports the Tennessean.
Writing from Nashville, Bill Hobbs critiques the coverage, pointing out that Tennessee […]
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D > B
At one Nashville high school, 29 percent of students who earned a B in algebra flunked the state algebra test; at two magnet schools, 100 percent of D students passed. Grades aren’t reliable indicators of performance, reports the Tennessean.
Writing from Nashville, Bill Hobbs critiques the coverage, pointing out that Tennessee […]
D > B
At one Nashville high school, 29 percent of students who earned a B in algebra flunked the state algebra test; at two magnet schools, 100 percent of D students passed. Grades aren’t reliable indicators of performance, reports the Tennessean.
Writing from Nashville, Bill Hobbs critiques the coverage, pointing out that Tennessee […]
No respect
In an MSNBC column, Eugene Volokh responds to Maureen Dowd’s charge that Clarence Thomas can’t oppose affirmative action because he’s a beneficiary. Volokh asks if a male justice is ungrateful if he holds that sex discrimination is unconstitutional, even though bias made it easier for men to get into law school.
In response, […]
I get Denzel Washington
The VodkaPundit Plan will end racism in the U.S. in a few generations. Sunburn problems will go down too.
The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy in Japan
Japan is a foreign country:
A principal at a Niigata Prefecture elementary school has abolished student roll books that lists their names in alphabetical order regardless of their sex, claiming that the style of the books contains a hidden agenda of Marxist feminists.
Basing his argument on a book authored by several […]
Behind Blair
Blair Hornstine, the sole and only and nobody-else valedictorian of Moorestown High skipped her graduation; her name was not mentioned during the ceremony. The salutatorian-not-co-valedictorian, Kennety Mirkin, got a standing ovation.
The Weekly Standard’s Jonathan Last, a Moorestown High grad, provides background on how Blair got the highest grade point average: […]
Strom found VMD
Strom Thurmond wasn’t just a segregationist relic, writes Mark Steyn. The centenarian senator was an active lecher to the last.
In his early 90s, the wizened Republican with the fiery orange hair-plugs made an ill-advised attempt at bipartisan outreach and groped fellow Senator Patty Murray. In his late 90s, he had a little light […]
Can teachers’ union improve bad schools?
Chicago Teachers Union will run reform efforts at 10 low-performing schools — with only one year to show progress, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The union had criticized District CEO Arne Duncan for closing three failing schools last year. He told teachers to put up or shut up.
For some […]
Plagiarism plagiarism is is bad bad
A scholarly paper on detecting plagiarism plagiarized four sentences, charges Michael Heberling, president of Baker College Center for Graduate Studies in Michigan. William Ryan, a retired Florida Atlantic business professor, struck back. The Palm Beach Post reports:
With his honor and reputation to defend, Ryan decided to run Heberling’s […]
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