Maybe tween-agers don’t want parents to listen to their problems, suggests Ann Hulbert in Slate, reviewing the movie Thirteen and a book, Not Much Just Chillin’ : The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers.
Empathetic listening and therapeutic understanding, the kids suggest, can be overrated: What they really need are adults who can help them look and […]
Archive for May, 2008
New Orleans schools are so bad that parents who want their children to be educated must pay for private school. So assert Gregory and Maria Guth, parents who are suing the school district, demanding reimbursement of their son’s private school tuition if he’s unable to continue at his magnet school.
Franklin is among the […]
Some Florida students will take home report cards on their fruit and vegetable consumption as part of a state program to combat obesity. And help Florida farmers sell those mangoes. I’m not clear if it’s just promotional literature exhorting kids to eat more healthy food, or an actual attempt to report on whether […]
Boys are on the wrong side of the gender gap in schools, reports USA Today.
In classrooms nationwide, girls are pulling ahead of boys academically. Recent federal testing data show that what starts out as a modest gap in elementary-level reading scores turns into a yawning divide by high school. In 12th grade, 44% of girls […]
Invisible Adjunct hosts an excellent debate in the comments section on a post by Laura of Apartment 11D, who predicts that mid-level universities will become obsolete.
I’m going to make a Jules Verne prediction for the future. In the next 10 to 15 years, many of the mid-level colleges are going close and reopen as cyber […]
Atlantic Online interviews Virginia Postrel about her new book, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness. I want to get my book published and get that kind of publicity for it. And win the lottery, of course.
I wonder if the popularity of “Queer Eye […]
A Mexican-American group says Arnold Schwarzenegger is anti-immigrant and maybe racist, because he believes immigrants should learn English. Even if they never lose that accent.
LULAC’s (Gabriela) Lemus said Schwarzenegger’s membership on the board of U.S. English “does not bode well for Hispanics.”
“So many of us support bilingualism and bilingual education and maintaining […]
Everyone must feel the same about diversity
Published by August 29th, 2003 in Uncategorized. 21 CommentsSince giving admissions points on the basis of race was ruled unconstitutional, the University of Michigan has announced a new system that will take race into account as a “plus factor,” but won’t give points. Admissions officers will consider a variety of non-academic factors, including family poverty, leadership potential and alumni connections, but academic […]
Chuck Tryon, an English prof at Georgia Tech, has assigned students to read and analyze a blog: This one, Rachel Lucas or Tom Daschle. That’s what we call a gamut. They’re supposed to discuss how one of the blogs makes its arguments.
. . . you’ll want to focus on (1) locating a central […]
On the National Association of Scholars forum, Thomas Reeves complains about the burdens of teaching unprepared, unmotivated, anti-intellectual students dressed like clowns, prostitutes or members of barbaric tribes. (The individual links don’t work, so be prepared to scroll.)
The great majority of high schools continue to require little in exchange for their diplomas. […]
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