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  • Check Out This White Privilege Survey Administered to Teachers

    Check Out This White Privilege Survey Administered to Teachers0

    • July 28, 2015

    Below is a white privilege survey that was administered to teachers in the St. Paul Public Schools district (MN) by Pacific Educational Group—a consultant for many public school districts around the country. We’re curious to hear your thoughts on it…  Save this article to favorites

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  • There’s Not a Googol of Anything in the Universe

    There’s Not a Googol of Anything in the Universe0

    • July 28, 2015

    File this under the “whodathunk?” category… My kids are obsessed with the number “Googol,” i.e., 10^100, or, a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It always ends up being the climax of their silly enumeration back-and-forths (“Oh yeah, well you have a googol of [insert unpleasant thing]!”) But when we looked into it, we were surprised

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  • George Washington University Removing SAT/ACT Requirement

    George Washington University Removing SAT/ACT Requirement0

    • July 28, 2015

    In high school, you were a voracious reader, had argumentation and writing skills superior to most of your classmates, and received good grades. But your standardized test scores were mediocre at best, and they hurt your college applications. For people like you, there may be more hope on the future college admissions front. According to

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  • Who Was Right: Orwell or Huxley?

    Who Was Right: Orwell or Huxley?0

    • July 27, 2015

    From the Foreword of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, in which he compares the dystopian visions of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World: “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to

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  • Is American Education Missing This Important Component?

    Is American Education Missing This Important Component?0

    • July 27, 2015

    With achievement gaps growing, proficiency scores stagnating, and other countries getting ahead of American students, it’s easy to frantically search for the latest and greatest solution to our education woes. But do these latest and greatest solutions really get us anywhere? Do we actually need to re-examine some tried and true educational principles of the

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  • Not a Fan of the Term ‘White Privilege’?

    Not a Fan of the Term ‘White Privilege’?1

    The term “white privilege” continues gaining influence in American discourse. One of the latest publicized appearance was on MTV’s documentary—“White People.” But the concept of white privilege has also received a lot of backlash. Here’s a quick list of seven reasons why the term has failed to resonate with many people: 1) They’re white, and

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