As police nationwide struggle to bring down crime rates, frequently with their lives, academics grieve over the criminals—for credit.
Monthly Archives For February 2007
Intro to Turnstile Justice
As police nationwide struggle to bring down crime rates, frequently with their lives, academics grieve over the criminals—for credit.
Free Education Marketplace
The not so shocking news…. not one U.S. state currently has anything resembling a free education marketplace.
Public Schools As De Facto Parents
One of the latest developments in public education is that schools believe they are the de facto parents of the children who attend them.
Boise State Admits Bias
Idaho state senators questioned Boise State University President Bob Kustra about the allegations against the speaker program during his annual hearing before the committee.
At the hearing of the Idaho State Senate Education Committee on Thursday, February 15, President Kustra admitted the school’s invited speakers “tilt to the left,” according to the Idaho Statesman.
Myths About Underpaid Teachers
Just how much is a teacher worth?
Champagne Education on a Beer Budget?
Vance Fried, the Brattain Professor of Management at Oklahoma State University, has set forth a proposal that he believes will enable students to get “champagne education on a beer budget.”
Government Aid Subsidizes Wealthy
From inside academia, leading officials are starting to admit that government aid to education is increasingly going to the well-off.
GWU Gomorrah
If the father of our country were a teenager today, he might not want to go to the university in our nation’s capital that is named after him.
California Dream Textbooks
One reason to keep an eye on what is in textbooks used by students in California’s public schools is that what is passed on by the state’s education authorities to a large degree determines what can go in courses in the rest of the country. That could also be a cause of alarm.