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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Hard Times for the Evil Twin

Who is our evil twin here in academia? The media?They too are in the business of putting together and distributing information, so they are our twin. They lack our analytical standards and put out all sorts of nonsense, plus are rich and drive out real knowledge with their fake kind, so they are evil.Or so it often seems when a member of the university community watches ten...

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Sunday, March 23, 2008

US High School Grad Rate More Like 70%

The New York Times had a good piece about states cooking their graduation books. See the sample stats at left. California, self-described world headquarters...

Friday, March 21, 2008

Friday, March 21, 2008

Columns by UC's New President

Mark Yudof has been nominated to move from being the head of the University of Texas system to the presidency of the University of California system....