As a not so proud member of the No Child Left Behind generation, I have great disdain for the federal government’s increasingly cumbersome role in education. All education statistics taken since its enactment in 2002 reveal its failure. In October 2009, the latest results on the most important nationwide math test — The National Assessment of Educational Progress — showed [...]
Today, I was going to bitch about the DP’s adulatory fawning over the new co-op idea. Three things, however, prevent me from doing so. 1. It’s not a terrible idea in and of itself 2. Second, IvyGate decided to bitch about Alec Webley’s column, which I rather liked 3. Third, I talk too much about housing already So: in brief, Alec thinks it’s [...]
OK, so this has nothing to do with Descartes’ Meditations. But while I was pondering the implications of the famous “I think, therefore I am,” I came upon this blurb at Inside Higher Ed, alerting me to this article on a study of drunk driving. As you know if you’ve chanced to talk with me on the subject at all, [...]
Update 9:30AM: I forgot to link to this post from earlier in reference to professor Jackson. Mistake corrected. Also, to be clear, the kind of market I refer to at the bottom is a labor market. Having just started work on an (awesome) research project on the history of College Houses at Penn, my mind seems increasingly drawn to higher [...]
Update: Ten minutes after I posted this, the DP posted their article. Pretty straight-ahead coverage. Penn has some big names and big connections, and it’s always gratifying to see them come together and discuss important things. The names at the David and Lyn Silfen Forum yesterday were Amy Gutmann (moderating), John Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, John DiIulio, Andrea Mitchell, and [...]
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