standard issue
by now you may have heard that states have eased education standards so that kids can graduate from high school–the tests were deemed too hard so they made them easier to pass “The real pattern in states has been that the standards are lowered so much that the exams end up not benefiting students who [...]
it’s rough in 6th grade
a group of 11 and 12 year old girls from elk plain school of choice in washington made a video of ways to kill a classmate and posted it to youtube. titled top six ways to kill piper, the video shows various ways piper (the victim) is killed including being shot by the other girls, [...]
a real renaissance man.
first it was his art, now it’s his book, mein kampf. business students in india consider hitler’s manifesto a ”success story where one man can have a vision, work out a plan on how to implement it and then successfully complete it.”* the book has come into favor because of “the mutual influence of india and hitler’s nazis [...]
and maybe it’s cause they’re just dumb
a new study of undergrad and grad students found that students who used facebook typically have gpas a grade lower than their counter part who don’t use facebook. not surprisingly, 79% of the facebook users don’t believe there’s a link between their gpa and their use of the site.
aryn karpinski, one of the authors of [...]
i hope christian isn’t a stickler for grammar
not sure if you heard about christian bales tirade against some poor man who dared to check out the lights during a scene he was shooting for terminator 19 (or whatever version it is). apparently, christian isn’t the only human to get his panties in a bunch because of seemingly small but annoying infraction.
it seems [...]
ex-’jasper’-ating!
president obama may be in the white house but things for the ‘intellectual elites’ continue to get worse. brandeis university announced that it would be closing the world famous rose art gallery and selling off the world renowned art collection of over 6,000 pieces to cover increasing budget gaps caused by a faltering economy and [...]
tracy morgan wasn’t kidding*
oh the times they are a changing.
former florida state univesity safety myron rolle did the unthinkable and decided to get his mind kicked next year instead of his butt. rather than enter the 2009 n.f.l. draft with some of his fellow classmmates, rolle confirmed today that he has decided to head to england’s oxford university [...]
