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Since the inauguration of President Barack H. Obama, the nature and structure of American education have elicited unprecedented amounts of discussion, debate, and dialogue. With the president??s policies beginning to take root, fundamental changes—most of which we support—have begun to shape our nation’s public schools and universities. Outside of the White House, however, a series of worrisome events and trends suggests that American education, even at the college and university level, is still subject to a climate of continued anti-intellectualism and a widespread distrust of the student...
Looking beyond the implementation of the president??s policies, however, several troubling occurrences within the world of education this year have roused far too little attention. In Utah, for instance, a senator faced with the understandably daunting task of closing Utah’s large budget gap proposed making 12th grade optional in order to save the state around $60 million. Although we understand the magnitude of the financial pressures confronting Utah and other states, making the final year of high school nonobligatory sends the wrong message. It further devalues schooling in an age when public opinion...
...sophomore year, O’Brien had been elected Lampoon President??a role that suited him beautifully, according to Widmer, who said O’Brien had “the body of Abraham Lincoln and the head of Martin Van Buren.” He became the first leader in the magazine’s 134-year history to reign for two terms...
...been an inspiration for Obama’s response to our current economic troubles will have to be saved for another occasion. Smith’s other book, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” has had a more obvious effect on the president??s worldview...
Smith is an important source for Obama’s conviction that just and impartial judgment must be grounded in a sense of empathy for our fellow human beings. Although the president??s critics have insisted that justice must be blind and that empathy can only bias judicial opinions, Smith knew that justice would be an impossible ideal were human beings unable to share each other’s thoughts and feelings...