Fed up with the gloom-and-doom coverage of the conflict, the White House is taking aim at the press

In Baghdad, official control over the news is getting tighter. Journalists used to walk freely into the city’s hospitals and the morgue to keep count of the day’s dead and wounded. Now the hospitals have been declared off-limits and morgue officials turn away reporters who aren’t accompanied by a Coalition escort. Iraqi police refer reporters’ [...]

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Software’s Benefits On Tests In Doubt

Study Says Tools Don’t Raise Scores
This report from the Washingtonpost.com
Educational software, a $2 billion-a-year industry that has become the darling of school systems across the country, has no significant impact on student performance, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Education.

The long-awaited report amounts to a rebuke of educational technology, a business whose [...]

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Tests in Britain Stopping Children From Playing

BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Tests ’stopping children playing’
Five-year-olds are being prevented from engaging in traditional play as they are under too much pressure from the national tests, teachers have warned.
With lessons geared towards assessment, children are bored from the moment they begin formal schooling, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers warned.
What is [...]

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Misleading The Public about Higher Education

I don’t generally comment on conservative sites, not because they get it wrong but because there is little room for discourse between us. That being said, I thought I would raise a few issues contained in the Townhall.com diatribe regarding higher education.
Townhall.com::The Shame of Higher Education::By Walter E. Williams

Williams writes, in part, An ethnic [...]

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