» In addition to the drop in new MBA applicants, the Graduate Management Admission Council announced that two-thirds of its U.S. programs saw a decline in applications during the 2010-2011 academic year. The decline, combined with the fact that the number of American students taking the GMAT entrance exam is at five-year low, has some industry experts worried that the notoriously-cyclical industry won’t rebound.
My 12-year-old will out-reason Bill Maher when it comes to understanding, you know, what, you know, how logic works because he is completely illogical.Rick Santorum • Rebuking another round of criticism from television host Bill Maher, during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. During his show on Friday, Maher claimed Santorum wanted his children “locked up in the Christian madrassa”, because in public “they could be infected by the virus of reason”. When asked about the comments Santorum replied, “all of a sudden, if you’re instilling faith and teaching them about God in your home, you’re a madrassa, according to these folks.” The Arabic word roughly translates to “school”. source (via • follow)
Sure, we hear of an occasional winner come out of the ghetto. Movie stars, athletes, business people, we know their stories, but they are the very rare exception. For the most part, losers raise losers. Somehow we’ve got to get to these families and teach them how to respect education. Till then, nothing will change.Hartford Courant cartoonist Bob Englehart • Speaking in a now-removed blog post on the Courant’s site (cached version here) which blamed “dysfunctional inner-city poor minority families” for the problems that inner-city children face. “Losers raise losers” in particular raised the ire of New Haven’s mayor and school district superintendent, who wrote a harshly-worded letter to the Courant in response to Englehart’s blog post.
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Plan B6 of the Day: Officials at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania were asked to explain their decision to offer students access to the emergency contraception pill Plan B through a vending machine inside the school’s health center.
“We had some conversations with them and did a survey of the student body and we got an 85 percent response rate that the students supported Plan B in the House Center,” said Ship’s Vice president of Student Affairs, Dr. Roger Serr.
One dose of the so-called “morning-after pill,” which can legally be purchased over-the-counter by individuals 17 or older, will set students back $25. The university says it uses money made from sales to purchase more pills. Some 350 to 400 doses are sold each year.
“The vending machine is just a way to dispense it,” said Dr. Serr. “It’s provided, it’s not necessarily promoted on a large scale.”
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Plan B6 of the Day: Officials at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania were asked to explain their decision to offer students access to the emergency contraception pill Plan B through a vending machine inside the school’s health center.
“We had some conversations with them and did a survey of the student body and we got an 85 percent response rate that the students supported Plan B in the House Center,” said Ship’s Vice president of Student Affairs, Dr. Roger Serr.
One dose of the so-called “morning-after pill,” which can legally be purchased over-the-counter by individuals 17 or older, will set students back $25. The university says it uses money made from sales to purchase more pills. Some 350 to 400 doses are sold each year.
“The vending machine is just a way to dispense it,” said Dr. Serr. “It’s provided, it’s not necessarily promoted on a large scale.”
What do you think? Should a university be selling emergency contraception from a vending machine?
(Source: thedailywhat)
Apple has today announced iBooks 2 at an education-focused event in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum. iBooks 2 was touted as a “new textbook experience for the iPad” by Apple’s Phil Schiller. (via Apple announces iBooks 2, a new textbook experience for the iPad at Education Event in NYC - The Next Web)
You know what would be great? If Apple released software allowing teachers to easily make their own textbooks to put into this app. What if the teacher in this story could just make a book on their own time, with their own content? Wouldn’t that just be brilliant?
It is time to acknowledge this failure and adopt a more effective course for the federal role in education. Policymakers must abandon their faith-based embrace of test-and-punish strategies and, instead, pursue proven alternatives to guide and support the nation’s neediest schools and students.A policy assessment written by Lisa Guisbond, Monty Neill and Bob Schaeffer • Suggesting that No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era education law passed under bipartisan circumstances, should go the way of the dodo. The policy, now seen as an example of ineffective government overreach by many, celebrates its 10th birthday today, and politicians who once supported the law — including Rick Santorum, who voted for it and tried to push an intelligent design amendment into the bill — no longer do. Guisbond, Neill and Schaeffer’s report, which suggests revisiting the law based on the lessons learned from the past decade, is available to read over here. source (via • follow)
SUPER, GROVER A familiar TV character walks with Afghans at the French Culture Center in Kabul on Nov. 30. Children in Afghanistan will be able to start their education as millions of preschoolers elsewhere in the world have: by watching the TV show Sesame Street, which begins airing in the country on Thursday. (Photo: Omar Sobhani / Reuters via MSNBC.com)
We always knew he’d make a good diplomat.
Reminder to all: Today is StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening, which we’re taking part in. Want to get involved? Read our primer post on the whole thing. And tell us about a teacher you’d like to thank.
Can you think of the one teacher that inspires you? On Thanksgiving this year, give thanks for your meal and how lucky you are to be with your family and all that jazz. On Friday, after you’ve convinced your dad that Chrome is the browser of the future, take part in The 2011 National Day of Listening, organized by the nonprofit StoryCorps, a group “dedicated to recording, preserving, and sharing the stories of Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs.” How can you help? Simple. Thank a teacher, and tell the world about it. Who inspired you to do your best work? Who encouraged you to try something you were afraid of doing? Who helped make you the person you are today? Take a couple days. Think about it. Then report back. On Friday, the ShortFormBlog staff will put up a couple anecdotes from our own teachers. And we’ll pick a couple from readers. Shoot us a message over here, or throw up a post; StoryCorps is also looking for Facebook posts and tweets with the hashtag #ThankATeacher. Can’t wait to hear what you have to say. source
Brian Nguyen, photographer for UC Davis’s student newspaper The Aggie, captured the events of yesterday’s protests from beginning to end, and was kind enough to submit them for publication here at The Political Notebook. Above are a selection of photos capturing the police in riot gear, arresting and pepper spraying the student protesters. What an intense group of shots.
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The stuff at UC Davis yesterday is pretty unbelievable, and these photos really show just one angle of it. Watch the video. James Fallows of The Atlantic refers to it as such: “Watch that first minute and think how we’d react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria. The calm of the officer who walks up and in a leisurely way pepper-sprays unarmed and passive people right in the face? We’d think: this is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population. That’s what I think here.” UC Davis police chief Annette Spicuzza, meanwhile, claims that the police acted as they did because they were surrounded. The university’s chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi, calls the events “troubling.” What do you think?
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Over the weekend, the New York Times asked aloud why the television industry is getting hundreds of millions of dollars each year to stay in the city while the schools suffer. Quick answer, from a 2010 New York Times article: Because TV shows, such as the now-cancelled “Law & Order,” bring in hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Which is not to say that we shouldn’t give the schools more money. But it’s certainly not “dubious” to subsidize an industry that has many positive side effects. “But in a number of instances the subsidy is gift-wrapped cash doled out to productions that would be here regardless,” columnist Ginia Bellafante argues. Ms. Bellafante, have you seen what they can do with Vancouver? They can make that city look like anywhere! We rest our case. Heh.
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A little late on this, but better late than never!
Get answers to this and other questions about U.S. currency, like how many dollar bills are printed each month?
We figured sprinkles. This is much more informative.
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