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...money is not what schools need from the federal government. Over the past 40 years, we as a nation have increased per pupil spending by two and one half times??in real dollar terms. Yet student performance has hardly budged over that period of time. Even our best students—the top tenth—do not perform any better today than their parents and grandparents did forty-odd years ago. Meanwhile, high school graduation rates are lower today than they were...
...take a globalization class from Lawrence H. Summers? You can learn about the flat world from Jason Beckfield, a visiting from the University of Chicago. A great excuse to read Thomas L. Friedman’s books—or to pick up The New York Times??this spring...
Housman’s combination of quickness and interior strength made him look unstoppable at times??particularly late in the game with Vermont over the foul limit...
...Modern Times?? ...Is as good as any album Dylan has put out, and that includes “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Blonde on Blonde” and “Blood On The Tracks,” the acknowledged long-time Classics, along with 2001’s “Love and Theft,” the recent Classic. The songs (like those on “L&T”) are more artfully and cerebrally constructed now than they were back when song after song seemed to come cascading...
...latest gore-fest “Apocalypto” opened alongside “Blood Diamond,” the violent liberal ego-stroker by Edward M. Zwick ’74, and movie observers pointed to a trend of serious violence in movies. David Carr, the New York Times?? so-called “Carpetbagger” (Oscar observer), wrote a column about how many movies tagged with the speculative title of “Oscar-worthy” are filled with blood...