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Failure Made Walt Disney Great 1
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
December 15, 2016, will mark the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney’s passing. Half a century later, I vividly recall the intense sadness I felt when I learned, at age 13, that he had died. It was as though I had lost a close member of the family. I doubt that I ever missed a single
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Stanford Dean: 8 Basic Skills We’re Failing to Teach Young People 0
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
Last week, former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims made a list of eight skills which every 18-year-old should possess. The list ran as follows: An 18-year-old must be able to talk to strangers. An 18-year-old must be able to find his or her way around. An 18-year-old must be able to manage his assignments, workload, and
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The Reason Why Universities Don’t Give Their Students Challenging Texts 0
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
In a recent article for The Times Higher Education, a variety of university professors from Great Britain and Australia note a common theme in today’s students: an inability to read anything of length or depth. Take, for example, the following quotes: “Our undergraduates – and postgraduate students as well – seem mainly not to be
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WTH Happened to Argentina’s Economy? This Chart WIll Show You…0
- Economics
- April 18, 2016
Last week, I noticed that Argentina is laying the groundwork to return to global debt markets. As a point of background, a decade and a half ago Argentina defaulted on a $100 billion obligation, the largest debt default in history. Then, in 2014, it happened again. We’ve become kind of immune to bad economic news
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Video: Teacher Goes Off On Student Who Claimed He Caught Him Watching Porn 1
- Culture
- April 18, 2016
Via WOWK-TV, a CBS affiliate out of Charleston, West Virginia: A video that shows an East Bank Middle School teacher berating a student was emailed in to 13 News to be investigated. 13-year-old Jeffrey Province says he was the first student into his math class at East Bank Middle School on Tuesday when he
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Study: Literacy in Ancient Israel Was ‘Far More Widespread than Previously Known’0
- History
- April 15, 2016
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a study on Monday revealing that literacy among ancient Israeli soldiers was much higher than previously believed. The study was based on 16 inscriptions on pottery fragments (known as ostracons) unearthed near the Dead Sea in an excavation from the Judahite desert fortress of Arad. The
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Failure Made Walt Disney Great 1