Highered Intelligence

There's been a little kerfuffle on the web lately about a phrase that's sometimes deployed on university campuses: "Check your ...

Someone once asked me back in the day (when I blogged a lot more than I do in my current incarnation) why I spent so much time and energy wr...

Chester E. Finn is upset .  Why is he upset?  Well, he's upset because apparently the number of parents choosing to exempt their student...

Probably because of twitter-related issues, there's been a bit of a traffic spike lately.  Nothing tremendous, but I wanted to take a fe...

One of my favourite bloggers, Rachel Levy, has recently taken it upon herself to write out a series of thoughts, worries, and ruminations ab...

Universal Pre-School. Elementary school. Junior High. High School. College. A Job. Social Security. Retirement. There's a minds...

Once again, the SAT has morphed. And once again, it's not clear the changes are entirely for the better. Saying its college admissio...

It sometimes seems that you can't move your foot on a college campus without kicking a controversy involving some sort of racial or cult...

Via Ann Althouse , I am greeted this morning by the news that there is a Petition at Boston University to cancel a concert by this fellow o...

I want to warn you, gentle readers, this post is VERY, VERY long.  I'm more or less summarizing several months of blogging that took pl...