Aug 30 2007
Research Shows!
Studying improves student performance. So did the authors of this “study” get an NSA research grant, and if so, how much?
I’m going to need to create a new blog category for money flushed down the toilet.
Archive for August 30th, 2007
Aug 30 2007
This Has Potential
Top stories: Killer babies are on the loose! and Honeymoon couple attacked by goldfish!
I bought a National Enquirer once. I couldn’t resist the headline: Killer trees stalk America! However, I never could bring myself to go through that particular cashier’s line again. But online . . .
Aug 30 2007
Ya Think?
For all the whining about evil “high-stakes” testing, you’d never know that 20% of the enrolled students in DC didn’t come to school on the second day of classes. I guess they were too “disenfranchised” to be bothered.
More likely, they were out committing crimes.
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Aug 30 2007
You Want Depressing?
Considering that this comes from the “paper of record,” the “flagship newspaper of the nation,” this is fairly depressing (hat tip to Hot Air — I would have stumbled upon it when I hit Instapundit later, but credit where it is due):
It is an eminently good thing that the anti-suicide measure would require medical specialists […]
Aug 30 2007
Name That Travesty
Guess what the red circles on the map below are.
Have an idea yet? Answer below the fold.
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Yuval Levin:
Have a look at the map of Manhattan below (used recently […]
Aug 30 2007
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