I Voted
By Jesse Singal - Nov 4th, 2008 at 2:04 pmI voted this morning at the Bell Multicultural Senior High School in Mt. Pleasant, a neighborhood in northwest DC. I was probably in and out…
Posts Tagged ‘education’
Bad Education
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 2:22 pmThis Harvard Crimson story encapsulates everything that’s wrong with Teach for America:
Four days ago, a select group of eighth graders from G. Gardner Shugart…
Governors Want Painless College Budget Cuts
By Pedro de la Torre - Oct 31st, 2008 at 12:10 pmThe National Governors Association (NGA) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings yesterday asking that no state be held accountable under new laws…
Expensive Colleges Feel the Economic Crisis, Too
By Daniel Strauss - Oct 29th, 2008 at 12:37 pmYou’d think with a hefty tuition of almost $50,000 a year per student the most expensive colleges in the country would be comfortably insulated from…
“Plenty of kids need 10 pages on Hamlet by Thursday”
By Jamelle Bouie - Oct 27th, 2008 at 11:16 amI’d wager that most UVA students who frequent Alderman Library (the “main” library on Grounds at the University) have seen the short older man with…
G.I. Bill: Too Late?
By Kay Steiger - Oct 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pmI’ve written before about the potential problems with enacting the new G.I. Bill legislation, sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb, but The Washington Post has a…
In Defense of Chicago’s “Gay School”
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 20th, 2008 at 11:18 amThe Los Angeles Times opposes Chicago’s proposed LGBT charter school. The arguments are familiar, that “the creation of a cloistered, segregated environment represents an easy…
Teenage Boy Incarcerated for Writing About Interests of Teenage Boys
By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 17th, 2008 at 2:22 pmVia Boing Boing, this is about as disturbing as an actual zombie attack:
Poole told LEX 18 that the whole incident is a big misunderstanding.…
Another Weak Ayers Argument
By Matt Zeitlin - Oct 16th, 2008 at 2:21 pmA big problem with conservatives’ constant effort to criticize Barack Obama’s association with William Ayers is that the mere fact that they worked together on…
School Vouchers: Still a Terrible Idea
By Ned Resnikoff - Oct 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pmSteve Benen picked up on what I thought was a pretty surreal moment in the debate as well: John McCain touting the smashing success that…
Baylor Tries to Cheat on the SAT
By Kay Steiger - Oct 15th, 2008 at 5:14 pmKudos to some student reporting at Baylor University’s Lariat Online that broke a story about the school trying to buy its way to better SAT…
New Report: Our Generation Is Less Educated
By Kay Steiger - Oct 9th, 2008 at 4:45 pmA disturbing report released today and written about in Inside Higher Ed points out that our generation might be falling behind when it comes to…
More How to Increase Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
By Kay Steiger - Oct 6th, 2008 at 12:58 pmToday there’s an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed calling for greater diversity in the fields once called vital to national security by President Bush: science,…
Rethinking the SAT
By Kay Steiger - Sep 30th, 2008 at 11:45 amYesterday Inside Higher Ed reported that The College Board, creator of the highly disputed SAT test, did its own independent analysis about college admissions and…
Happy Banned Books Week!
By Emily Rutherford - Sep 29th, 2008 at 2:25 pmThis Monday marks the start of Banned Books Week, the American Library Association’s annual celebration of our freedom as Americans to read any book, even…
