I spent two hours today at work pulling together information for a guide on foreign trade statistics. And sometimes I've just got to wonder WHY?

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I'm not a big one for posting links, but I'm just so amazingly flabbergasted by a news story I just read that I can't help commenting. Eight teenagers in Florida beat up a girl and caught the whole thing on tape specifically so they could post it to YouTube! ( Google News articles ) This is so idiotic in so many ways that I simply can't wrap my ( Read more... )

In light of my recent rant, I just had to point out the following quote from the Onion regarding President Bush's State of the Union Address: "He's right. No one can deny the results of No Child Left Behind, because thanks to the program, no one has any basic reasoning skills."

I just read yet another editorial in the LA Times about the need for education reform. And yet again they, like so many other opinion writers out there, are extolling the virtues of charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, etc, etc. Now I'm not against any of these concepts, and I'm sure some of those schools are doing exciting, innovative ( Read more... )