In Baltimore County’s new English class, a noun is defined as “stuff” and a verb as “what stuff does.” Correspondingly, the texts for the class, called “Studio Course,” are often teen magazines.
Monthly Archives For December 2005
Rescuing Christmas: Part One
Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation, a group founded in April of this year by columnist Don Feder and others, held a press conference on Thursday, Dec 1 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to defend the Christmas holiday.
Ivory Tower Welfare
The Tar Heel state provides an instructive case study of college corporate welfare in action.
A Primer on Politicized Science
As late as the 1960s Paul Ehrlich predicted that millions of people in American would be dying of starvation in the 1980s. It never happened.
The Ivory Ceiling
Professors Stanley Rothman, Neil Nevitte and S. Robert Lichter tested the hypothesis that “an ideological homogeneity exists in academia that has become self reinforcing.”
Public School Gomorrah
A recent federal court decision tried to give public schools control over their pupils’ lives that those students’ parents usually exercise.
Expensive Oaths
Swearing in high school just got more expensive in Hartford Connecticut.
Big Bad School Districts
Is bigger always better? When it comes to school districts, the answer is an emphatic “no.”
Cindy Goes to College
Ever since Hurricane Katrina knocked Cindy Sheehan off page one, she’s been popping up in a lot of new places, like college campuses at $5000 a speech.
Hampton University Crackdown
Seven progressive students at Hampton University who are facing the threat of expulsion will come before administrators in a hearing against them at 9 a.m. on Friday Dec. 2.