Category Archives: Academia and Other Nonsense

Kids have been paying for better grades, either directly to the instructor or by purchasing test answers, for centuries. NYC is now planning to pay the kids for getting good grades Roland G. Fryer, a 30-year-old Harvard economist known for his … Continue reading →

Yansa tries to find out where the Internet might be. I’ve never met this fellow Yansa, but I ran across his website many years back when I was feeling homesick for Oregon. He has some nice pictures here of various … Continue reading →

Otherwise I’m gonna be right down to touching my brain. You see, everytime some doomsday report comes out about “Is are childran lerning?”, the left points towards Bush and/or the Republican Party for blame-laying. And so it goes with Nicole … Continue reading →

A legislator in Arizona has proposed a bill that would outlaw “Politics in the Classroom” To muzzle instructors who champion political views in classrooms, a Republican state legislator has proposed a law that would punish public school teachers and professors … Continue reading →

I don’t like this one bit. It seems like “training” to me. School district finds unique way to charge students for lunch The Bethel School District says it plans to expand a “fingerprint” system for school lunches. The district right … Continue reading →

If you do well in your job, odds are you will be rewarded. That is fair. If you do poorly in your job, chances are that you will be fired. That is fair. However, if you are a teacher who … Continue reading →

With all of the weird winter weather over the past nine weeks a decent number of school days have been missed by the children in Washington State. We’re currently having huge discussions in this state about how to improve the … Continue reading →

Philosopher Daniel Denett believes that within 25 years religion will command little of the awe it seems to instil today. The spread of information through the internet and mobile phones will “gently, irresistibly, undermine the mindsets requisite for religious fanaticism … Continue reading →

MONEY! That is the universal answer we hear when the subject of failing schools is brought up. With enough money, the districts will be able to turn out thousands of rational thinking genii into our society. After they take care … Continue reading →