So, you want to go to college, but you’re not diverse. Peter Woods offers tips on how to write a diversity essay that will impress college admissions officials with your sensitivity and correct thinking.
The key to a good college-application diversity essay is drama. One of the best approaches is to compose a story that […]
Archive for May, 2008
Fittingly, Big Arm Woman is on top of the lawsuit over BraBall and its rival.
Hers weighs 650 pounds, his weighs 1,300 pounds, but when it comes to a competition between two giant balls of bras, does size really matter?
San Francisco Bay area artists Emily Duffy and Ron Nicolino are more concerned with copyrights than […]
Social studies curricula shouldn’t be about me, me, me, writes Brendan Miniter in Opinion Journal.
The new social studies often rests on “student-centered instruction” which allows students to be their own learning guides. The starting premise is that students can learn only what is familiar and directly relevant to them. Thus social studies in kindergarten […]
What do schoolboys need? Across the developed world, boys are doing much worse in school than girls, writes Ted Byfield in the Edmonton Sun. As a former teacher in a boys’ school, he doesn’t think boys should be encouraged to abandon the stoic “boy code” and have a good cry.
Yes, there certainly is […]
A college drop-out, California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamente completed a degree at Fresno State in interdisciplinary studies (ethnic studies and political science) this year. He used credits for a speech class he never attended, reports the Fresno Bee.
Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante got credit but did not have to attend a basic speech class […]
Tom McMahon found a story on a 1951 time capsule unearthed in Menonimee Falls, Wisconsin.
The 1951 entries included a ledger of school district expenses from the 1860s to about 1945. The entries are eclectic, covering teacher salaries — the standard monthly pay was $130 a month in 1944 — to the cost of hauling coal […]
School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American High School describes a hyper-achieving public school — many students come from Asian immigrant families — where academics are job one. In 2001-02, journalist Edward Humes taught a writing workshop at Whitney High in Cerritos, a Los Angeles suburb. Some Whitney students complain […]
College 101: Don’t jump out of your bunk bed
Published by September 27th, 2003 in Uncategorized. 5 CommentsWith no guard rails to keep them safe, University of Buffalo students are jumping or falling out of upper bunks, and Kimberly Swygert is laughing at them. Read the comments for classic falling-out-of-bed stories. Warning: Some involve alcohol.
Professor Wanted: Conservatives need not apply
Published by September 27th, 2003 in Uncategorized. 22 CommentsIf a conservative student wants a career in academia, he’d better hide his politics and avoid certain humanities and social sciences departments. David Brooks writes in the New York Times:
“Here’s what I’m thinking when an outstanding (conservative) kid comes in,” says (Robert) George, of Princeton. “If the kid applies to one of the top […]
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