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There is an old joke that the World Bank and IMF recruit third-rate students from first-rate universities, but that's only half the story. The truth is that even very intelligent and well-meaning people can be taught not to think critically, and visits to Harvard by the Mahuads, Sheikh Hasinas, and Wambia dia Wambas of the world sometimes contribute to this...
...questionable estimate, since most Americans don't speak the same language as the people they profess to be converting. Religious travel agencies guide devotees through tricky visa applications and advise them to elude the police by immediately boarding a train after blanketing a town with religious material. Evangelists are taught to speak in code, referring to the Bible as "bread" and God as "the boss." "You can't be too careful," says Joe Deng, who has made some 40 trips to underground churches in China over the past decade. "One wrong move, and you could get dozens of innocent people...
...consistently back testing in national polls, and with policy-makers, who use tests to gauge the success of other school reforms. Recent studies detailed soaring test scores among black students who used vouchers to enroll in private schools, and among California immigrants after that state required they be taught only in English. Despite noisy protest rallies in Massachusetts and Virginia last spring, support for high-stakes testing remains strong. In a new poll for the Business Roundtable, 68% of those surveyed say students should pass statewide tests to graduate; 75% think that even those in elementary schools should...
...recommendations written by Mom and Dad, lengthy high school transcripts that listed textbooks instead of courses, and grades that rarely dropped below A's. "When homeschoolers were applying to college in the early '90s, the schools didn't know what to make of them," says Cafi Cohen, 50, who taught her two children at home and wrote Homeschooling: The Teen Years. "Now most colleges have a policy for dealing with them, and some schools are just about rolling out the red carpet...
...Fathom is a for-profit online partnership of Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History and other institutions, and will offer online classes taught by prominent academics. The site launches this fall. CEO Kirschner envisions a scenario in which older adults will use Fathom courses to indulge lifelong passions and reinvent themselves for new careers. "It's as if, all of a sudden, everybody lives on a college campus," she says. "So many retirement communities are built near college campuses for just this reason. Now anyone, anywhere will...