Category: Education

Jason Rosenhouse links this excellent feature from Radar entitled America’s Worst Colleges. My favorite? The review of Liberty university. Notable Course: Christian Womanhood IV. Because keeping your mouth shut is too rich a subject for just three levels of study. Raw Data: Ranked in the lowest “fourth tier” by U.S. News & World Report and…

The Wall Street Journal comments on some select results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) testing which this year included some questions on economics. Pop quiz. Which has been most important in reducing poverty over time: a) taxes, b) economic growth, c) international trade, or d) government regulation? Now this is an interesting…

After yesterdays pathetic article from the WaPo suggesting that scores were “up” (whatever that means under the moronic patchwork that evolved under the law) it was nice to see the NYT get it right. Their article exposes the joke of state standardized testing in response to the law, and further demonstrates how meaningless standardized testing…