It looks like the law which requires colleges and universities to allow military recruiters the same access to campus as private employers receives will be upheld by the Supreme Court. The law, referred to as the Solomon Amendment, allows the government to punish educational institutions which do not comply with the law by pulling hundreds […]
Yeah, I know it's an oxymoron, but check out this article in today's Wall Street Journal on religious schools' difficulties at getting the University of California system's blessing on their courses. At issue -- among many things -- is the textbooks used in these courses. The physics textbook is like any other--with pure science in […]
The San Dieguito Union High School District is facing a potential $1.5 million lawsuit over photographs taken last spring for Torrey Pines High School's Literary magazine. The story first broke in Friday's Union-Tribune. I encourage you to read Sherry Saavedra's front page story, but the important facts are these: The photographs were taken without the […]
I seldom bother with Michigan history professor Juan Cole. Why? Because the man is living, breathing evidence that feces float. This time, Cole decided to open his ill-informed trap, and he got his teeth kicked in by the widow of Steven Vincent, the brave journalist and author murdered earlier this month in Iraq. Yes, Steven […]
Most would say to provide an education, but Sports Illustrated's Peter King brings up an interesting point regarding the NCAA's baseball schedule. Undergraduate classes at the University of Florida ended on April 20. That was 69 days ago. Yesterday, the Florida baseball team played in the final game of the College World Series championship series […]
Call the victims of 9/11 "little Eichmanns" while claiming that you're an American Indian. The Rocky Mountain News is wrapping up an impressive report on Colorado University professor Ward Churchill. Included in their extensive documentation is Churchill's family tree stretching back to the 16th century. Even going back nearly 500 years, they couldn't find a […]
Sunday's Union-Tribune had a very interesting article focusing on Eric Kyner, a guy with a M.A. in Economics who makes a six figure salary as a private tutor at UCSD. Kyner teaches 30 upper-division economics courses each quarter. He estimates he's taught thousands of UCSD students over the past five years, charging $10 per 90-minute […]
A Florida high school principal finds a witty graduation address on the Internet, and delivers it as her own -- that gets journalists fired and sets a bad example for students. In an interview on Thursday, (Principal Susan) Duval said she had come across the speech while doing research on the Internet but did not […]
It's a lost art in letter-writing, mainly because it can be difficult to pull off, but Robert J. Salvi of San Diego did it in this morning's Union-Tribune. I think it's a grand idea for Lincoln Middle School to rid itself of the Gifted and Talented Education, or GATE, stigma. In fact, I'm hoping other […]
The New York Times had an intriguing article on the new SAT essay test earlier this week. It turns out that an adding machine can grade the exams -- no brains needed. In the next weeks, Dr. Perelman studied every graded sample SAT essay that the College Board made public. He looked at the 15 […]