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Category Archives: Education
Of all the issues …
I find it fascinating that in just one week’s time, I have become one of the targets of those that oppose any regulation on guns, gun safety, and gun ownership in America. I am actually ok with all that — … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Policy and Politics
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The Guatemalan dream
I have returned again to Guatemala, I’ve lost count of which trip this is, which for me is a very good thing. I know I am a visitor and will likely always be one, but I am not a tourist. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Things Guatemalan
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Our tax dollars at work — the shame of proprietary colleges
Floyd Norris writes today on the NYT’s business page about what ought to be a national scandal. It actually is a scandal but it would appear that the dollars being contributed to our politicians by the for-profit higher education industry … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Policy and Politics
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D-E-B-T and Higher Education
Andrew Martin and Andrew Lehman have a front page story in Sunday’s New York Times: A Generation Hobbled by Debt. http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=949832&f=19 The top of the fold color picture features Kelsey Griffith, age 23, in debt $120,000 from her college loans, … Continue reading
What exactly is the promise of college?
In Sunday’s New York Times, Frank Bruni writes eloquently about “The Imperiled Promise of College.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/bruni-the-imperiled-promise-of-college.html?_r=1&ref=frankbruni He begins with these sentences: “For a long time and for a lot of us, “college” was more or less a synonym for success. … Continue reading
I Pledge Allegiance…
Last fall, just a few months into his tenure, President Don Dowless of Shorter University in Rome, Georgia, a school affiliated with the Georgia Baptists, announced that all employees of the university would be required to sign a Personal Lifestyle … Continue reading
Petrino, 0-1
A few months ago, I wrote a series of blogs predicting the fate of Joe Paterno. He’d been allowed to become a runaway coach, but his reign, I suggested, had come to an end. There was no way a Board of … Continue reading
me and Pat?
As in Pat Robertson and me, emphatically arguing the same point. I told you that money makes strange bedfellows. Pat Robertson’s latest cause is prison reform or, more specifically, telling everybody who will listen that America is locking too many … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Policy and Politics
Tagged Fareed Zakaria, Pat Robertson, prison reform
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We need the courage of the young
With a little license for condensing, consider the following: “President Jacobs, members and friends of Oglethorpe University, and especially you, my fellow members of the class of 1932.” Yes, you read that right, the class of 1932 and these words … Continue reading
