Education

Great op-ed piece at NYT today [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/opinion/26Budiansky.html?ex=1146196800&en=bd632639265ab8ba&ei=5087%0A] about colleges' attempts to brand their schools. We see an increasing trend: colleges less interested in education and more interested in attracting students. The

College students are becoming more religious, and it's affecting their political views, according to a new Harvard University survey of this potentially influential voting bloc [http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060413-122855-9675r.htm].

Twenty-somethings are drowning in debt as a result of expensive schools and lifestyles. Some folks, like those at WaPo, want the government (i.e., the taxpayers) to help them out. Here's the story [http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/default.asp?archiveID=1939].

Remember my rant against school field trips [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3803/]? Here's a story that corroborates my view [http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-32/1141127344116300.xml&storylist=newsmichigan] . Excerpt: > A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of

> Soccer superstar David Beckham, whose mental agility has been questioned before in the British media, has said his six-year-old son's maths homework leaves him baffled. > The England captain and Real Madrid midfielder was forced to call on his wife Victoria, a former member of the Spice

> A former fifth-grade teacher accused of having sex with her 11-year-old student was ordered held on $100,000 bond Saturday. [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060225/ap_on_re_us/brf_teacher_sex_4] I haven't featured one of these stories in awhile. It became less

Boys are dumb, or the feminist "equalization" measures have beaten the tar out of them, causing them to eschew college. Just another article [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/11/BAGB1H6IFN11.DTL] documenting what everyone knows and efforts in California to get more

Are you a public school fan who's all geeked up over the NYT article about two new studies that show public schools are better than private schools (which I can't find on-line, incidentally)? Take a look at this article first [http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/

Evangelical Professor Mark Noll has accepted a position at Notre Dame [http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2006/02/irony_alert_whe.html]. How odd, in light of the supposed reluctance of Catholic schools to hire Protestants and of Protestant schools to hire Catholics (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3565/]). Mabye it&

> The Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents yesterday announced that a new museum dedicated to black history will be built near the Washington Monument within the next 10 years. Link [http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20060130-115821-8010r.htm]. I couldn't really care less about the museum, but