The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Abstinence isn’t working
Teen births are down, thanks to contraception use. Why does the right ignore the facts and insist it’s abstinence?
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/15/abstinence_isnt_working/singleton/
As I have lamented earlier, the GOP has been hijacked by anti-feminists who think that government …
A huge student loan scam
With the help of Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., for-profit colleges are massively ripping off U.S. taxpayers
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/16/a_huge_student_loan_scam/singleton/
Additional proof (as if any were needed) that the Tea Party anti-government crusade is nothing more than racist anti-feminine …
Innovations in Higher Education? Hah!
College leaders need to move beyond talking about transformation before it’s too late
http://chronicle.com/article/Innovations-in-Higher/131424/
Time to clear out the dead wood! I would like to think it will be radical and quick, but something makes …
Girls Have a Math Problem: Teacher Bias
http://www.livescience.com/19552-girls-math-teachers-bias.html
If the teacher says it is so, then without a doubt it must be true! We all know how absolutely reliable teachers are and how they never, ever, make any mistakes.
According …
New York city schools want to ban ‘loaded words’ from tests
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/new-york-city-schools-ban-loaded-words-from-tests/?hpt=hp_bn13
In yet another instance of PC gone amok, New York city wants to ban these words from any standardized tests:
Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television.
Pretty …
http://deadspin.com/5893189/what-happens-when-a-35+year+old-man-retakes-the-sat
This is really hilarious and anyone who has sat for the SAT will likely find themselves with more than a couple of chortles and guffaws; I grinned the whole way through.
So really, read it. I write about too …
Stop subsidizing soaring college costs
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/opinion/bennett-college-costs/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6
It makes a huge amount of sense to me that if there is no price pressure on producers then there is no profit pressure, hence no benefit to producing something more efficient. If schools …
Stop Stealing Dreams
http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/StopStealingDreamsSCREEN.pdf
I have not yet finished it, but I have already decided that the content must be promulgated. The author, Seth Godin, seems like a pretty smart guy so I might read some of this other …
Not something that I think has any potential with the current GOP morons…
Rice, Klein: Education keeps America safe
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/20/opinion/rice-klein-education/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6
I agree with much of what the article has to say (I know Rice, but don’t know Klein, but I …
The Reproduction of Privilege
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/the-reproduction-of-privilege/
Vertical mobility (the ability to be born to poor parents yet go on to be middle class, for instance) in the US has been steadily eroding for well over a generation. While there are certainly …