With metal detectors in schools and stories every other week about students being suspended for the most idiotic of reasons, I've long realized that there is essentially a war on young people in this country. But last night, I watched the 2009 documentary The War On Kids and I've come away shocked, heartbroken, and disturbed. Perhaps horrified ( Read more... )

A teacher at a high school in New York has created an uproar by assigning students to watch Nazi propaganda and defend Nazi ideology. The teacher has been forced to withdraw the assignment and apologize. The Yahoo blogger reporting the story begins the tale this way -- "It’s safe to say that “thinking like a Nazi” is not the most sound advice ( Read more... )

I find myself feeling very ashamed of administrators at the University of North Carolina, an institution that grew close to my heart during a few years spent living in Chapel Hill ( Read more... )

We've all seen those dramatic examples of the ignorance of average Americans, such as Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" or the comedian from Canada who goes around asking Americans ridiculously over-the-top questions about our northern neighbor ( Read more... )

A few years back, I had an icon that was adapted by a friend of mine from a picture she found on one of those cheesy humor websites. I used said icon for posts about things that were so absurd, ridiculous, idiotic, or downright bat-shit crazy (or all of the above) that I didn't even know what else to say about the item. Lately, I thought about ( Read more... )

You go to any major college campus and it seems like every other student is majoring in business. Well, it turns out it doesn't just seem that way: Nearly 20%--1 in 5!!--undergraduates are business majors. A lot of recruiters view business degrees as next to worthless and want to hire employees with broader backgrounds. Meanwhile, you find that ( Read more... )

Homeless woman prosecuted for enrolling son in Connecticut school

A woman tries to give her son the best opportunity she can to build a better life and instead of commending her, society brands her a thief? Apparently, arrogance and entitlement know no bounds.

GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other ( Read more... )

US falls to average in education ranking.

I hadn't even heard we'd gotten up to "average". Damn, I really hate it when I miss the memos.