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When the NYT forgets about the Establishment Clause and public education.
I was stunned at something in the article "Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students," which focuses on an Ohio public school te…
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"They are just totally floored that you can even go to an Ivy League school and hold some of the beliefs that we hold."
Abstinence and chastity at Princeton .
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Politico: "Unions seethe over early Clinton endorsement."
"Labor leaders said there was a clear understanding that no national unions would make an endorsement before July 30. But the American Federatio…
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2 women do the math about women and math — and science and engineering — and say it may take 100 years before 50% of professors in the STEM fields are women.
Cheryl Geisler, dean of the faculty of communication, art, and technology at Simon Fraser University, says: "In the last four years we're se…
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Eugene Volokh thinks the Madison, Wisconsin school board is violating the First Amendment...
... with its new rule against "clothing with words, pictures or caricatures based on negative stereotypes of a specific gender, race, ethnicity…
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"To me, bad teachers don’t do anybody any good. So the unions need to recognize that parents are not going to stand for it anymore."
Said Whoopi Goldberg today, Labor Day.
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Some students pay tuition that is as high as it is to fund financial aid that is offered to other students.
Is there something wrong with that? In his proposed budget, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is seeking to cap the use of tuition dollars from in-stat…
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Have you heard about "full service" schools?
"A $300,000 grant paid over the next three years from the Madison Community Foundation will begin the process of developing 'full-service…
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"Montana quarterback receives $245K settlement for university’s ‘unfair and biased’ rape investigation."
This is the Missoula case that Jon Krakauer wrote a book about. Missoula was labeled the “rape capital” of the country. Investigative reporter Jon Kr…
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"So Vox’s position is that the unjust exercise of authority causes crime in black communities but prevents it on campus."
"It’s not logically impossible that this apparent contradiction has some basis in reality, but one can be forgiven for suspecting it is the prod…
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The boys have fallen behind.
But why? Nicholas D. Kristof asks. Some people think that boys are hard-wired so that they learn more slowly, perhaps because they evolved to fight …
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"Harvard wants secretive male clubs to go co-ed. All-female groups are being punished in their wake."
WaPo observes. The unexpected consequence of the penalties, then, is to prevent women from associating under their gender as well... Why would that b…
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"Unemployed, Miserable Man Still Remembers Teacher Who First Made Him Fall In Love With Writing."
My post yesterday about Stephen King teaching English to high schoolers reminded a reader of that headline from The Onion .
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"I also like to use random constraints to fuel a discussion or class exercise."
"For instance, I might ask students to pick random numbers and then we use those pages in the text as our focus passages, figuring out what they…
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"My 'C,' 'D,' and 'F' students this semester are almost exclusively American..."
"... while my students from India, China, and Latin America have - despite language barriers - generally written solid papers, excelled on exams…
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And I thought this poor girl was mistreated by the original NYT headline!
By "original," I mean the one I saw when I wrote the post yesterday: "How would you like to be the one person photographed to appear u…
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Kids who eschewed TV to overachieve in school are crying over the SAT essay question about reality TV shows.
Oh! Cruel irony! It vexes! “This is one of those moments when I wish I actually watched TV,” one test-taker wrote on Saturday on the Web site College…
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RIP, Alton T. Lemon — the Lemon of the Lemon test.
"Mr. Lemon’s lawsuit challenged a 1968 Pennsylvania law that reimbursed religious schools for some expenses, including teachers’ salaries and te…
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"Refusal to allow your child to attend this trip will result in a Racial Discrimination note being attached to your child’s education record..."
"...which will remain on this file throughout their school career," says a letter to parents of 8-year-olds who might consider opting them…
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