Archive for July, 2011

School Shut Down: Teacher and Principal Smoking Meth

Dear State and Federal Governments, You don’t pay educators enough money. Perhaps a budget increase could class things up a bit[link to article] in the U.S. Public School System. Get on that, please, for the love of all things wholesome and holy. Thanks! [ READ MORE ]

Atlanta Cheats, Too

Remember the jackass educators in Washington D.C. who erased students’ incorrect answer bubbles and filled in the correct ones? So classy, so honest, such role models for the impressionable young minds they’re wearing down to nubs with high-pressure standardized tests. Adults suck. [ READ MORE ]

Faculty Productivity

Ever wonder what those professors with their cush teaching posts do with their well-paid time? Educate young minds or lie about, smoking pipes and wearing tweed and discussing any topic in the most pedantic way possible? Perhaps. Or maybe they’re working their asses off trying to keep the jobs they nearly killed themselves to get. [ READ MORE ]

OCW Consortium Partners with Leading Community College Consortium, CCCOER, to Expand Access to Open Education

Remember the OpenCourseware Consortium folks? They’re awesome in their wielding of powers for good. They make online courseware available to educators and students everywhere. The newest project is partnering with community colleges[ READ MORE ]

UC Berkeley Not Radical Enough

The Huffington Post published a list of The MOST RADICAL Colleges. UC Berkeley isn’t on the list and they’re a little pissed about it. You know, ish[ READ MORE ]

College Tuition: Save or Borrow?

It’s painful receiving the short, simple advice that paints one pristine illustration which you will never ever be able to remove from your mind. The kind of advice you understand you need to know, but that you sorely wished you’d never heard, read, or seen[ READ MORE ]

Zack Kopplin for President

Michele Bachmann has officially announced her decision to run in the 2012 presidential campaign. I’d rather have the Baton Rouge teen, Zack Kopplin, who called her out on her creationism/intelligent design education policies. He seems smarter and a lot more open to facts and logic[ READ MORE ]

No Senioritis Fun For You!

Reasons behind the reduced high school experience: Indiana will save between $6,000 and $8,000 per student, which will then be used for college scholarships; and most college-bound teens are done with their core requirements and have sent their paperwork in to their future colleges and universities and spend most of senior year decompressing and having fun (the humanity!) instead of focusing on their studies. [ READ MORE ]