Category Archives: Academia and Other Nonsense

For ending our long national nightmare of overweight school kids Fuel costs may force some kids to walk Here’s how rising fuel prices affect an organization with a fleet of 1,273 school buses: The Montgomery County school board today will … Continue reading →

And as much as the local progressive-istas like to whine about the Thomas-Scalia-Alito-Roberts quadrafecta on the SCOTUS, if they have children in the Seattle School District, they should be happy about this development. Integration is no longer Seattle School District’s … Continue reading →

If you go to a public high school in Washington State, or any state for that matter, and you wanted to go to a college or university that is also run by said state’s public education department, you’d probably guess … Continue reading →

…and I played a LOT of AD&D? Solo, I might add. Pathetic, I know, but then I got 94% !!! Neener! Skin Disease or Dungeons and Dragons Character?Score: 94% (15 out of 16) h/t: it comes in Pints?

It seems that I’m not the only one to question the study being bandied about by the American Association of University Women Carrie L. Lukas at the Independent Women’s Forum The AAUW has put out another study arguing that there … Continue reading →

I guess that there isn’t a problem with the estrogenically concentration of public education after this report from the American Association of University Women stating that they think things are just peachy. I’m worried though that they may make plans … Continue reading →

That anyone can step over it Who is to blame when students fail? If many students fail — a majority even — does that demonstrate faculty incompetence, or could it point to a problem with standards? These are the questions … Continue reading →

The Portland Public School District is going to force feed all the bad things whitey has done to the chilluns Text fills in history of Oregon’s racist acts Portland Public Schools is poised to adopt a new curriculum today, making … Continue reading →

That awaits the arrival of Union bosses. Teacher’s Union bosses in particular get put to the bottom of the hierarchy in that special spot. Washington state lost out on $13.2 million in new funding to help turn B students into … Continue reading →

Rob at the SayAnything blog got an email from an anonymous reader who is a student at North Dakota’s Williston State College. The student is required to write an essay paper for his English Composition class. The topic: Do you … Continue reading →