From England's The Register newspaper: Study: PCs make kids dumber Students who use computers frequently at school perform worse than their peers at maths and reading. Yeah, but how does it affect their writings?
From England's The Register newspaper: Study: PCs make kids dumber Students who use computers frequently at school perform worse than their peers at maths and reading. Yeah, but how does it affect their writings?
Or "Don't know much about history." I was briefly listening to what I hope was a replay of the Alan Colmes radio show (I mean, they gave the guy Thanksgiving off, right?) earlier this evening when I quickly discovered that the night's subject of debate was whether or not the founding fathers believed in God. […]
Some of you may recall that several months ago a student at Poway High School got pulled out of class for wearing a T-shirt with the words "I Will Not Accept What God Has Condemned" on the front and "Homosexuality Is Shameful, Romans 1:27" on the back. He wore the T-shirt the same day some […]
The Claremont-McKenna college professor who vandalized her own car, spraypainting racist epithets all over it, has been convicted of filing a false police report and attempted insurance fraud. She faces more than three years in state prison. (Kerri Francis) Dunn, 39, left the courthouse without commenting. Her attorneys later issued a statement saying the professor […]
A high school Protest Warrior member got into trouble as he tried to post various fliers around campus. It's a very interesting read.
Instapundit points to this TCS article by fellow blogger Pejman Yousefzadeh who makes this point: "It is more than a little shocking that some Berkeley law students don't seem to understand the function of a legal research memo." Berkeley failing to educate its students is nothing new. There are two top-tier architecture programs in California: […]
With the departure of my favorite niece to the insignificant state of Rhode Island, I will be noting the many ways that state is a bad place to live. This is the first in a series. Bad thing #1 about Rhode Island: It is not actually an island. Naming it that is deceptive and damages […]
I've often said that the problem with zero-tolerance policies is that they are a poor substitute for common sense. But there's always the exception that proves the rule -- where administrators demonstrate they are so bereft of common sense that a zero-tolerance policy is needed to make up for this moral flaw. This is a […]
I've long been opposed to the so-called "zero-tolerance" rules instituted at most of this nation's public schools because it takes common sense out of the equation. Today's case in point comes from Fort Worth, Texas: A wooden baseball bat, no longer than 8 inches and visible through a car window, spurred Diamond Hill-Jarvis High School […]
The New York Times has an interesting article about small Patrick Henry College, which was founded eight years ago to serve mainly evangelical Christian home-schoolers. Patrick Henry's purpose is to turn students into political leaders -- much the same as many Ivy League schools. However, these political leaders would be Christians first, and politicians second, […]