By Gilbert T. Sewall May 29, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Parents often think fate has singled their children out for poorly chosen school reading assignments. It hasn’t. A distressed father recently told me about seeing his high-school-age daughter’s summer reading list and realizing that it was devoted exclusively to contemporary writers such as David Eggers, Malcolm Gladwell and Barbara Ehrenreich.... Read more
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Shutting Bad Schools, Helping Students
April 29 | Posted by mrossol | Education, Party Politics, The LeftSure, not politically correct, but perhaps correct, nonetheless. ======== By Michael J. Petrilli And Aaron Churchill April 27, 2015 7:21 p.m. ET As difficult and disliked as school closures can be, a new study being released Tuesday by the Fordham Institute indicates that the students usually benefit. When we looked at the impact of closures on their achievement, we found that, on average,... Read more
The Study of Military History
March 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Military, Western CivilizationThe topic as been purged from US university curricula at our peril. ============ From remarks by Lewis E. Lehrmanat the New-York Historical Society on March 23, when the $50,000 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History was awarded to Alexander Watson’s “Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I” (Basic Books, 2014): The study of military history has in fact been purged from... Read more
Colleges Need a Business Productivity Audit
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, EducationAnd you would think universities would be leading the effort to figure this out. Not. =========== By Frank Mussano And Robert V. Iosue Dec. 28, 2014 6:54 p.m. College tuition rates are ridiculously out of hand. Since the late 1970s, tuition has surged more than 1,000%, while the consumer-price index has risen only 240%. The percentage of annual household income required to... Read more
