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A little bit of broadcasting history which you are unlikely to get in a broadcast journalism class.

“You know that a lot of people don’t have a big imagination, even with sixth-graders, their imagination is slowly dying, so you have to continue to dream big and you can do great things in life.”—Imaginative sixth-grader Gabrielle Williams

“With the exception of a few areas — specifically, climate and the environment, certain fields within biology and medicine, history of science and the interaction between science and public policy — the rot that infects the rest of academia has been averted in science and engineering schools.”— Ron Lipsman, professor emeritus of mathematics and former senior associate dean of the College of Computer, Math & Physical Sciences, University of Maryland.

If the federal government’s new education standards are so common, why have  few people seen them?

It might not be seismic, but there is a shift in academia away from the faddish and back towards the traditional.

Public school teachers have been bemoaning the decline in reading skills for years. At least one teacher is trying to do something about it.

Racial preferences embraced by supposedly elite law schools may actually be forcing blacks out of the legal profession.

Race-based college admission preferences actually hurt minority applicants, three members of the U. S. Civil Rights Commission allege.

An historic ballot proposition passed by California voters in 1996 to end race-based admissions to the University of California may have led to more blacks being admitted to UC.

“College student loan debt now surpasses $1 trillion.”—Vicki Alger, Independent Women’s Forum

“The ‘everybody gets a trophy!’ school of thought does not make students confident, but renders them cynical.”— Douglas B. Reeves, founder of The Leadership and Learning Center

Halloween is not here yet but universities are already channeling Charlie Brown in their eager anticipation of their own Great Pumpkin—green jobs.