Category Archives: Academia and Other Nonsense

Are you watching Stossel (Thursday at 8 & 11pm ET, Friday at 10pmET)? The government-school establishment has said the same thing for decades: Education is too important to leave to the competitive market. If we really want to help our … Continue reading →

Wait until ACORN is publishing the textbooks The Open College Textbook Act of 2010 HR 4575 – To authorize grants for the creation, update, or adaption of open textbooks, and for other purposes. Section 4 – Part E (a) Grants … Continue reading →

In America you need to have a background check to buy a firearm. In the UK, you need to have a background check to see you child at their school. Last week, the boy Puddlecote’s school e-mailed their regular newsletter. … Continue reading →

First off, thanks to Phil et. al. for providing me a spot on his site.  I just don’t write enough to make it worth running my own blog anymore.  Work is just too demanding these days. So yesterday, the US … Continue reading →

So go the “education professionals”. I would have thought that a college president was pretty smart. I’m now forced to re-think that notion. And so it is that I’d like to invite the head muckety-muck of the Evergreen State College, … Continue reading →

The second paper due for my Geography 100 class is on (drumroll) Glowball Warmening and The Greenhouse Effect. It is due today. I finished and submitted it yesterday, via email. I had to read a chapter in the $100 textbook … Continue reading →

Well, folks. This is it. My first day as a student. By the time you read this and my posts below, I will have my ass in a chair and my thinking cap on to make sure I don’t miss … Continue reading →

If students aren’t passing a certain test required for them to graduate, Washington schools officials just get rid of the test. Always needing to be ahead of the curve, Berkeley High School officials don’t like how non-white students aren’t taking … Continue reading →