College is a waste of time and money for below-average students and party animals, writes career counselor Marty Nemko in Chronicle of Higher Education.
Among high-school students who graduated in the bottom 40 percent of their classes, and whose first institutions were four-year colleges, two-thirds had not earned diplomas eight and a half years later.
Drop-outs […]
Archive for May, 2008
The Carnival of Education goes on a road trip with Science Goddess as the driver.
Black students’ low test scores caused Will C. Wood Middle School to miss its No Child Left Behind goals. But the Sacramento school met NCLB after all by persuading parents of four previously “black” children to let the school reclassify their kids as white or American Indian. Blacks, who are 17 percent of students […]
Thanks to Norm Geras for asking me to contribute to his writer’s choice series. I wrote about my love of fantasy and adventure books, starting with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
We’d been reading and acting out Narnia stories for years before my sister said she thought the book might be a Christian […]
Visions of the future is the theme of this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling, hosted by HomeschoolBuzz.
Los Angeles students who drink water from school drinking fountains have been exposed to unsafe levels of lead, according to a KNBC report. Thirty percent of schools checked had at least one fountain with excess lead in the water. Lead exposure can lead to brain damage, though the safety levels are so set so low […]
Feminists are trying to make girl-friendly — or else – writes Christina Hoff Sommers.
The feminist reformers acknowledge that few science departments are guilty of overt discrimination. They claim, however, that subtle, invisible “unconscious bias” is discouraging talented aspiring women. Therefore, the major focus of the equity movement is to transform the academic culture itself […]
I think that I shall never see a worse example of poetry: Hatemongers’ Quarterly’s fifth annual Horrible College Student Poetry contest is underway. You don’t have to be a student to enter.
(The contest) allows everyone to provide a vicious parody of the politically menacing inept blather favored by our nation’s young adults. And nothing […]
Young teachers are discovering that posting sexual jokes, vulgarity, nudity and comments about “retards” in online profiles is not a wise idea, reports the Washington Post.
Click “View Photos of Erin,” and you can see her lying on her back, eyes closed, with a bottle of Jose Cuervo tequila between her head and shoulder. Or […]
The real problem with Bill Ayers is not that he tried to plant bombs as a Weatherman 40 years ago. It’s his career as an education professor indoctrinating new teachers, writes Sol Stern in City Journal.
(Ayers) still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he […]
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