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Harkin Report Condemns For-Profit Colleges – NYTimes.com
According to the report, which was posted online in advance, taxpayers spent $32 billion in the most recent year on companies that operate for-profit colleges, but the majority of students they enroll...
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Raising the Ritalin Generation – NYTimes.com
It struck us as strange, wrong, to dose our son for school. All the literature insisted that Ritalin and drugs like it had been proved “safe.” Later, I learned that the formidable list of possible side...
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Students, Beware: Private Student-Loan Companies Are Not Your Friends | The...
This year, as these students prepare to sign away their futures, they would do well to consider a report released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). On July 20, the agency designed by...
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A Terrifying Way to Discipline Children – NYTimes.com
According to national Department of Education data, most of the nearly 40,000 students who were restrained or isolated in seclusion rooms during the 2009-10 school year had learning, behavioral,...
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Life in the Vats: Have We Forgotten How to Make Things?
If so, we’re dead. Oh sure, as individuals, we’re going to die someday. What I’m talking about is our society, our culture. We can’t live on service and information. We need to make things. At all...
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Bulletin: KidZ Dig Worms
First, the Big Dig. Last year on Oct. 22 hundreds of citizens of Jersey City fanned out across the city and planted 10s of 1000s flowers. We did it again this year on Oct. 27. One thing I was reminded...
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Colleges Turn to Crowd-Sourcing Courses – NYTimes.com
Professors delight in reaching more students in one course than they could otherwise teach in a lifetime. Dr. Ezekiel shows off a postcard from a student in Sri Lanka. Al Filreis, the poetry professor,...
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Dance to the Music: the Kids Owned the Day
It IS, after all, about them, no? Here’s the scene: A middle school auditorium in suburban New Jersey. It’s late Saturday afternoon on the second day of a dance competition. The auditorium is...
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The Hunt for Genius, Part 5: Three Elite Schools
I grew up in western Pennsylvania in a suburb of Johnstown, a small steel-making city. My father was from Baltimore and he worked with Bethlehem Mines, the mining subsidiary of the now-defunct...
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Extra! Extra! Japanese Government Funds Distance Education on the Rez
No, it hasn’t happened yet. But who knows, stranger things have happened. By “the rez” I mean, of course, the reservation. In this case I have no particular reservation in mind but rather am thinking...
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An Appeal to the Pope on Behalf of the Creatures in the Cosmos
I’ve got another post at 3 Quarks Daily, Charlie Keil’s Simple Appeal to the Pope on Behalf of the Future. Here’s a conversation Charlie and I have been having on Facebook: Charlie Keil: Nice nesting...
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Are we ruining our children by micromanaging their lives?
Clemens Wergin and his family had just moved from Germany to America, where he’d taken a new job. On the family’s first day here his 8 year-old daughter slipped out to explore the neighborhood. Writing...
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Kids These Days: Media Use and Parental Fear
My colleague Charlie Keil is worried that kids these days spend too much time with media of one sort or another (as detailed, e.g. in this report) – TV, computer, video games, whatever – and not enough...
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