they’ve got a logo and everything
if you’re milling about with nothing to do this summer, you might want to check out new online learning venture, beck university. exclusive content available only with the insider extreme subscription to glenn beck’s website, “professors” for the university include david barton of wall builders, a “pro-family organization”, david l. buckner, the president of a [...]
at least she apologized
reporter ann curry screwed-up big time when she gave the commencement speech at wheaton college in massachusetts over the weekend. during her speech at the fomer women’s college curry recognized the schools esteemed graduates reverand billy graham, film director wes craven, and politician dennis hastert. problem was, these dudes graduated before 1988 when [...]
well, people think the president walks on water
a study of british school children revealed some pretty interesting things about what they know and their sense of scientific history. in addition to thinking that queen elizabeth invented the telephone they thought that luke skywalker and richard branson have been on the moon (one of these guys is working on it) and finally; sir [...]
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 [...]
