How can a deep blue campus go purple? By a statistical fluke.
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Education Department Grows By Fiat
The president just expanded the U. S. Department of Education by executive order.
CAPping Teacher Quality
The president’s favorite think tank wants to improve teacher quality but is less clear about how its proposals differ from policies already in place.
Education Empire Strikes Back
Stung by a spate of recent documentaries on public schools, the education establishment is trying to rebut the filmmakers’ charges.
Castro on Campus
An education blogger you may never have expected.
Campus Obmamania Over?
While the White House might argue the point, it appears that the epidemic of Obamamania that swept across the nation’s college campuses a couple of years ago ended before the midterm elections.
Potemkin Presidency and Professoriat
In his recent foray to George Washington University, the president and his hosts pretty much dropped all pretexts of above-the-fray statesmanship and detached scholarship.
Academia Corrupts Free Enterprise
The danger of exposing academia and government to free enterprise is that the former will corrupt the latter.
Advanced Placement of Malaprops
When you run into malaprops among Advanced Placement students, you really have to ruminate over the condition of education.
Subsidizing Questionable Science
When there is no private sector push for a scientific breakthrough, maybe it is not such a breakthrough after all.