Kevin Carey rips Charles Murray’s new book, Real Education, which proclaims “four simple truths for bringing America’s schools back to reality.”
Murray actually offers one simple truth, one tautology, and two opinions (one somewhat legitimate, one not). The one (very) simple truth is that “ability varies,” by which Murray means intelligence, or I.Q. All reasonable [...]
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College presidents seek to legalize 18-year-old drinkers
Published by August 19th, 2008 in College. 22 CommentsLowering the legal drinking age to 18 would discourage binge drinking, argue a group of college presidents from major colleges and universities.
(Amethyst Initiative) signers think the current law isn’t working, citing a “culture of dangerous, clandestine binge-drinking,” and noting that while adults under 21 can vote and enlist in the military, they “are told [...]
Students are choosing narrow vocational majors such as “turfgrass science,” reports U.S. News.
In fall of 2005, just before his sophomore year at Pennsylvania State University, (Daniel Hughes) switched his major from education to turfgrass science, a four-year bachelor’s degree offered through the school’s College of Agricultural Science. In that program, Hughes and some 200 [...]
Redshirting doesn’t work
Published by August 3rd, 2008 in Children, College, Education, Family, Testing and Uncategorized. 19 CommentsRedshirting kindergarteners — holding young students out of kindergarten for a year — is supposed to provide an academic edge, especially for boys. The redshirt will be older, bigger and more mature than classmates. It doesn’t work that way, writes Emily Bazelon on Slate. She cites new research by David Deming of Harvard and [...]
In the wake of the U-Delaware indoctrination sessions for dorm-dwellers, the National Association of Scholars has called for professors, not Student Affairs staff, to control residence-hall curricula. In the name of “educating the whole person,” “the residential life revolution” and “the student learning imperative,” Student Affairs staffers are trying to create “progressive social [...]
University of California plans to open admissions to students who haven’t completed the required sequence of college-prep courses or those who haven’t taken SAT IIs (Achievement Tests back in the day). UC campuses would consider these previously ineligible applicants’ “backgrounds” and “extracurricular activities.” The proposal also includes automatic admission for students graduating in the top [...]
Nurses, engineers and government managers with diploma-mill degrees may put the public at risk, but the Department of Justice won’t release their names.
Operators of a Spokane diploma mill are heading to federal prison, while senior Justice Department officials say they are going to keep secret the names of the 10,815 buyers who used the [...]
Mondays will be vacation days in a rural Minnesota district. The four-day week should cut spending for utilities and busing.
At a Tennessee community college, few classes are offered on Fridays. To take advantage of empty classrooms and cut students’ commuting costs, Volunteer State is offering a semester’s worth of classes on “Full Time [...]
FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has a “red list” of colleges where free speech is not respected.
Although given numerous opportunities to reverse the finding that student Chris Robinson and another student violated the school’s “violence” policy for posting a flyer parodying a Feminist and Gender Studies flyer, Colorado College has refused to [...]
Not a single student at Dalton, an elite Manhattan private school, was accepted at Harvard this year. For $31,200 in tuition a year, parents are peeved, reports the New York Post. Marymount, a private girls school also struck out on Harvard admissions.
While high SAT scores and grade point averages, extracurricular activities and [...]
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