There's news today that major private banks are refusing to give loans any longer to students at community colleges and at "less prestigious" universities. Led (not surprisingly in many ways) by Citibank, some of the big private banks are pulling their loans, even though the...
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The Course: SSCI 102: Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences.The Content: Survey of contemporary, peer-reviewed social science articles and monographs; discussion of basic research methods and analytical skills useful.
I think this gets most of the obligatory points:A statement, or paragraph, about "hook-up culture," preferably with no statistics to back it up, but if you must, you must. General.
Anthony Infanti at Feminist Law Profs has got a great post up about the decision of the President of San Jose State University to ban blood drives on campus. Why? Because the FDA's refusal to accept the blood of any man who has sex with...
If you can ignore the truly inane comments (with your usual dose of lady-shaming and -blaming), it's worth checking out this article on the Denver Post's website, reporting on a.
In response to Robert Maranto's editorial, Donald Douglas of Long Beach City College spills his guts and exposes the leftist cesspool of higher education:Maranto's discussion rings very true in my.
This op-ed in today’s Washington Post recycles all the unpersuasive anecdotal and statistical complaints usually raised by conservatives when moaning about the liberal bias in higher education. The piece is miserably composed, but it’s bound to assume its rightful place in the anthology of right-wing...
It's no surprise at this point to learn that the prison door is revolving. Recent studies show that up to 2/3 of those recently released from prisons are rearrested within.
Laura McKenna:OK, a little poking around found that the Cleveland voucher is now worth up to $5,000 per student, which is much closer to what the average per student funding.
As a follow-up to the debate that various TAPPEDers and ex-TAPPEDers are having with respect to conservertarian claims about the efficacy of school vouchers, this from Justice Stevens's dissent in Zelman (although peripheral to the question of whether voucher programs that will cause funding to...
From Slate's XX Factor:Following the kerfuffle over birth control for the Hanna Montana set, health officials in Portland, Maine, have agreed to report “all illegal sexual activity involving minors as.
Whatever you think about the debate over the availability of the birth control pill in a Maine middle school, the Onion's done you one better.(via)