This has been a problem forever. It seems that our public schools can only focus on one thing at a time. The results indicate the systems fail to educate those at the lower echelon and those at the higher echelon. And, with the latter, therein lies the real problem.
Continue reading No child left behind? Not if you are in the top 10%
I have ranted and raved against sports on campus- not because I believe our students are not entitled to such diversions, but because the money and power these programs have accumulated are poisoning academia. (We already have petty bourgeoisie battles over tenure; the sports battles, on the other hand, are far from petty.)
Continue reading A College Cheer (only if you are from the Bronx)
Fareed Zakaria published an op-ed in the Washington Post on Thanksgiving (literally and figuratively). In it, he stated that we (Americans) should not be “enamored of Germany” for maintaining its industrial base through economic reforms. Since, after all, we are in the “post-industrial, information economy”.
Continue reading Really? Fareed Zakaria missed the boat.