Wednesday's Wall Street Journal has an alarming article [subscription required] on the incompetence of the College Board -- the people who run the SAT. In the wake of grading errors that wrongly lowered the SAT scores of thousands of students, a number of guidance counselors and college test-prep services say they are urging test takers […]
Needless to say that I didn't get up early this morning to watch NBC's "Today" show with Colorado teacher Jay Bennish (transcript here). However, I am somewhat sympathetic to this analysis of host Matt Lauer's questioning of Bennish. Lauer: "They shopped it around to conservative media outlets and finally released it to one and created […]
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that if law schools want to continue cashing checks from the federal government, then they have to treat military recruiters the same as they do other businesses. As I noted at the time, it never really looked like the law schools were going to win this one. I was […]
A high school geography teacher in Colorado is in deep water, and rightfully so, for going on a left-wing political rant in a 10th grade geography class. Michelle Malkin has a ton of links and a transcript here. A couple of things I'd like to note on this issue: My high school history teacher was […]
This story sounds almost too good to be true, but it probably is. England football captain David Beckham confessed he is befuddled by his six-year-old son Brooklyn's maths homework in an interview. Beckham, 30, admitted to being baffled when Brooklyn recently asked for help with a school assignment and had to turn to his former […]
Lt. Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, a WWII Marine ace and Medal of Honor awardee, isn't "the sort of person UW (the University of Washington) wanted to produce. The University of Washington's student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus Gregory "Pappy" Boyington of "Black Sheep Squadron" fame amid concerns a military hero who shot down enemy […]
Today's Wall Street Journal opinion page has an editorial on how the National Education Association spends members' dues. The article reinforces my belief that unions should be required to get permission from their members (opt-in rather than opt-out) before they spend money on lobbying or political candidates. But I'm also unsure if those classifications go […]
I took Advanced Placement U.S. History in high school, but not from my father. Nope, my instructor was a Gloria Steinem-ish feminist named Mrs. Lee. The course was taught like a college course -- we bought our textbooks and marked them up over the course of the year. One of those book was a pretty […]
John Fund has a blurb in today's OpinionJournal.com Political Diary (fourth item) on the Grossmont Union High School District here in eastern San Diego County. If you want to know what's going on in that district, Fund's piece is a horrible place to start. Let's start with the factual errors. Nonsense, says Ron Nehring, the […]
It should come as no surprise that when Ann Coulter tries to speak on a college campus that trouble follows. For the record -- I'm no fan of Coulter's. I think she's a bomb-thrower and generally does more harm than good for the conservative cause. But I wanted to highlight to something else in the […]