Of all the attempts to reform education, the so-called school-to-work program, in many ways, looked like the most promising.
Monthly Archives For April 2006
What price IB?
A veteran educator asks, what comes first in American education, United States citizenship or world citizenship?
Educational Epiphany of Bill Gates
Educational experimenters rejoiced when multibillionaire Bill Gates’ foundation bankrolled some of their favorite education schemes, but these private sector philanthropists quickly learned what public officials are loathe to admit: social planning will not yield literacy.
Inmates Run Academic Asylum
While the former foreign secretary for the Taliban attends lectures openly at Yale, ROTC cadets routinely feel compelled to change out of their U. S. military uniforms before returning to class.
Insourcing The Science Gap
American colleges and universities can still claim that they are producing more scientists every year but they can juice those numbers by the manner in which they label various academic disciplines as scientific.
Academia Demonizes The Military
A veteran cop and author debunked widespread academic myths about the U. S. military at Accuracy in Academia’s recent Capitol Hill conference.
Science Left Behind
Clearly, No Child Left Behind has caused schools to redouble their efforts to teach reading and math but at what cost?
Kindergarten Censorship
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide soon whether to hear a case involving a school district’s censorship of a kindergartner’s art poster that contained a picture of Jesus.