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  • The College Textbook Racket

    The College Textbook Racket0

    The business of selling college textbooks is a racket. As Ernie Smith of Atlas Obscura notes, it has a long history. Every academic year a new edition of practically every college textbook is released by the publisher. The prices of college textbooks are horrendously high, sometimes in excess of $200. Since textbooks are required reading

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  • The College Board Scraps Controversial ‘Adversity Score,’ but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions

    The College Board Scraps Controversial ‘Adversity Score,’ but Continues Plan to Weigh College Admissions0

    It appears that many Americans still believe that merit is the most important factor in determining who will get into our top colleges and universities. On Tuesday, the College Board announced – after receiving considerable criticism – that it will no longer pursue adding an “Adversity Score” to the SAT. In May, the organization announced that it would start ranking

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  • The Cognitive Dissonance of Teachers Unions

    The Cognitive Dissonance of Teachers Unions0

    • August 12, 2015

    Today’s Washington Post contains its semi-annual, John Taylor Gatto-wannabe letter from a public school teacher on why she is quitting. It’s not shocking, since about half of teachers quit within their first five years. The letters are published more for the purposes of spurring on education policy. In the letter, the teacher in Michigan –

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  • The Coarseness of our Discourse

    The Coarseness of our Discourse0

    There’s a story floating around today about a radio station being hacked and an expletive-laced recording played through the station’s broadcast signal. CBS Denver describes it below. Listeners of the Breckenridge-based 106.3 FM The Lift radio station heard strange ramblings from an unknown person along with a lot of foul language on Tuesday morning. …

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  • The Clock Is Ticking: Trillions in Debt With No Solutions

    The Clock Is Ticking: Trillions in Debt With No Solutions0

    As the U.S. Debt Clock reveals, our national debt will soon reach an astounding $23 trillion.  We show little inclination to rein in spending, cut programs, investigate cost overruns, or reduce the number of federal workers. No, we keep spending money like it will vanish from our wallets regardless, so much so that we are blasé about

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  • The Clock Is Ticking for America

    The Clock Is Ticking for America4

    Yeonmi Park’s new book, While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector’s Search for Freedom in America, is a broadside against current American political indoctrination, which is a propaganda campaign that reminds Park of her adolescence spent living in a “dictatorship of the mind.” Park’s first book, In Order to Live, recounted her impoverished and brutal

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