I’m not sure what I think about the tablets vs. textbooks debate. But my guess is that tablets are the wave of the future, whatever I might think. The actual text of textbooks has already become pretty awful, banal and … Continue reading →
Somebody’s been making a ton of money off Cozy Classics, which are board picture books for toddlers. They feature a single word per each of twelve pages and are meant mostly to amuse their parents, I would guess: Read the … Continue reading →
This article is filled with eye-popping statistics on the elite public high schools of New York and their demography over the years. The uneducated immigrant Chinese and other Asians of New York today do what poor immigrant Jews of New … Continue reading →
This is one of the saddest articles I’ve ever read. It describes the genesis of the cheating behavior that was exposed in 2010 in a scandal in the Atlanta public school system, where administrators and teachers in predominantly black schools … Continue reading →
Ruth Marcus thinks the female SCOTUS justices do. And she thinks that’s a good thing: How did the Supreme Court manage to agree unanimously that police must obtain a warrant before searching cellphones, yet split on whether employers must offer … Continue reading →
A while back The Atlantic had an article by Hanna Rosin describing how it was that in just a couple of generations Americans became intolerant of exposing their children to what used to be considered normal risks. Some of it … Continue reading →
Reading David Horowitz’s 1989 book Destructive Generation—and particularly the chapter entitled “Doing It,” about the Weathermen who morphed into the Weather Underground (notably Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, as well as several fellow travelers)—I am struck by the irony of … Continue reading →
…is having been born with two X chromosomes. I didn’t say it—they did: Note that the video was made at George Washington University. Although GW isn’t exactly Harvard, it’s a very respectable university and it’s located in Washington DC, where … Continue reading →
All this news about commencement speakers being scared away or disinvited or staying the course despite adversity or giving students a tongue-lashing makes me want to return to a commencement address from an earlier time. That time was 1956, nearly … Continue reading →
Well, it certainly doesn’t seem to be doing much to make them smarter these days. Or rather than “smarter,” let’s say more well-informed and better able to think clearly. And I strongly believe that this is purposeful. The majority of … Continue reading →
This NY Times article is about the contest by which Newark, New Jersey elected its new mayor, Councilman Ras Baraka, who according to the Times is “the fiery scion of a militant poet.” The contest—between two black Democrats—was both expensive … Continue reading →
One would think that this would be enormous news, and should have been from the moment the girls were kidnapped: Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls [kidnapped from school on April 14, almost 3 weeks ago] … Continue reading →