I wrote about the Atlanta school cheating scandal several times (see the first three entries after this one on this list). It’s a shocking tale of widescale corruption within the public education system of the city, plus an attempted coverup: … Continue reading →
Some drunken frat boys (it’s not clear how many) from the SAE chapter at the University of Oklahoma sang a very racist song while on a chartered bus and were videotaped doing it. So now the national fraternity has banned … Continue reading →
More than this apparently: The city Department of Education has failed to fire a teacher rated “unsatisfactory” for six consecutive years. Ann Legra, 44, a first-grade teacher at PS 173 in Washington Heights, racked up “six years of failing her … Continue reading →
And middle-class savings smells like blood in the water to him, according to Glenn Reynolds: When a government is desperate for cash, it goes after the middle class, because that’s where the money is. Yes, the rich are rich, but … Continue reading →
…like a good idea to me: Arizona state lawmakers have made their state the first of what could be 18 in America to require teenagers to pass the U.S. citizenship test to graduate from high school. It’s the test immigrants … Continue reading →
More non-free lunch from Obama: The White House proposal would waive tuition for students who attend community college at least half-time and maintain a 2.5 GPA (that’s a C+). You have to work hard not to get that grade. Washington … Continue reading →
This article by Suki Kim is an excerpt from her book Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite, based on her experience teaching English in North Korea. From a review of the … Continue reading →
…that this is happening. I’m surprised that it’s happening in Nebraska: A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is in some ways a companion piece to this earlier post today.] Commenter “ConceptJunkie” made an interesting comment the other day. “Concept” was describing a friend of his—a very intelligent lawyer—who voted for Obama: He still insists today … Continue reading →
The left has staged a coup.
Continue reading →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 →