Category Archives: EDUCATION

This is our future? — "Companies Trading Cash For Admissions Essay" And UConn's Usher says he's not concerned? Continue reading →

Been spending this extra hour this morning checking out schools both local and online for what I think may be a new direction: computer science. I'm not sure I'm up to the entry level, but I think that this is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

To all those using the web to not only research, but to go beyond and plagiarize for your academic papers: Turn It In has been hitting my site as much as you have! Ponder the ideas you've read here, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So it seems that at the University of Arizona there’s a lit class where a paper’s due on Beverly Jensen’s Wake, from the BASS 2007 publication. Another school is working on Joseph Epstein’s My Brother Eli, also from this anthology, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Even as I tell myself it’s useless to a career at this point in my life, I’m still wondering if I shouldn’t go for a quickie degree that will serve as some sort of credential.  Central? Charter Oak? University of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I wonder why we think it’s all right to pay a college basketball coach $8 million for a five year contract when the real job of the college (UConn) is education: Auriemma Signs 5-Year Deal With UConn Contract Worth $8 … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Now that takes chutzpah: Googling "Wind in the Willows exam."  I’ve seen them ask for cheat sheets, spark notes, as well as the breakdown for exactly what the instructor asked, i.e., "metaphors in…, theme of…, etc." Continue reading →

I was directed to this post to the Orange County College Life Blog by Ronni Bennett of Time Goes By (excellent insight on getting older, tackling the issues that confront us as we age), entitled  "Hey…Grandma??"  where a very intolerant … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Always and ever. Doubletaking courses just to connect with the environment of learning, though it’s no more than a study center in my living room dawn to dusk. Love this Marsedit thing I now use for posting into all three … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Might as well just quote direct: Paying Students To Learn By Bridget Gutierrez | Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 01:37 PMThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWith metro Atlanta public schools regularly offering goodies — such as MP3 players and bikes — to encourage students … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Early, much too early thoughts wander into alien areas.  As centuries go by, the burden grows on each new generation to learn what has gone before.  The last one hundred years alone: World Wars, airplanes, cars, telephones and tv sets, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Was thinking of taking a class this coming semester, maybe Creative Writing again since it’s going to be focused on fiction and while I’ve been through it already, thought maybe it’d serve as a ‘writing group’ and provide exercise and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So how many more generations of stupid are we going to produce before the liberals admit they might be wrong?  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development PISA 2006 Results Steve Sailer’s "Makes You Proud to be an American" And this … Continue reading → Continue reading →