University of California students protesting a 32 percent fee hike are pampered brats, writes Ruben Navarrette Jr.
UC-Irvine freshman Suzanne Kordi told the regents in public comment: “This isn’t Wall Street, and the UC students are not here to bail you out. We’re here to get an education. If these [...]
Wall Street Journal (motto: we’ve never met a URL we can’t complicate) looks at the trend for More Scientists Treat Experiments as a Team Sport. I don’t think team is the right term. If you’ve spent time in higher education, you’re likely aware that the only team that exists [...]
This Wall Street Journal editorial is off-base. It understates what a missed opportunity this rethinking learning initiative represents.
[...]The drive to ramp up college graduations will go nowhere unless the issue of lagging males is addressed. To date, that problem has been pointedly ignored by educators and foundations, mostly due to political correctness. I mean, who wants to talk about helping males when they rule Wall Street and [...]
With the Race to the Top final rules set to come out today, the major media outlets (from the Wall Street Journal to The Washington Post) all covered the news with different flair.
What's interesting in the New York Times' piece by Sam Dillon is that [...]
Today’s hyper-social teens are compulsive communicators, writes Jeffrey Zaslow in the Wall Street Journal.
A 17-year-old boy, caught sending text messages in class, was recently sent to the vice principal’s office at Millwood High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The vice principal, Steve Gallagher, told the boy he needed to focus [...]
And I got this email directly, which (with permission granted) I will reproduce:
Hello Mr. WhItmire,
Thank you for your interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal, “The Lost Boys”. Your new book could not be more important and I hope it’s a huge best seller! I’m a retired [...]
