Archive for December, 2007
So what do you do with $35 billion dollars?
Very interesting article on Harvard’s new accessibility to the middle class. Families making less than $120,000 won’t pay any tuition. The author, Steven Roy Goodman, argues that by providing additional aid, Harvard and others with generous endowments, are hoping to head off legislation by Congress that would mandate schools to spend 5% of it’s endowment [...]
Legislative Support for Higher Education
Last spring, the legislature passed a law that restricts public college students in Texas to drop only a maximum of six classes as an undergraduate. The idea was that this will help students graduate faster. I see it as the perfect example of what passes for legislative support for higher education in Texas. College officials [...]
Texas SBOE does not support teaching of evolution
In case you haven’t heard, the Texas Education Agency has fired the agency’s director of science, Christine Castillo Comer, for forwarding an email about a talk on evolution. It also looks like the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is seriously considering approving a program that offers a Masters Degree in Creation Science. And if you [...]
Gustavus Adolphus College
Gustavus Adolphus College is a liberal arts college in Minnesota with a relatively high graduation rate, high admittance rate, and a large endowment. I didn’t see anything especially compelling about the school from available public information. My overall impression, which could be totally wrong, is a school that provides lots of individual attention to students but that the students aren’t necessarily challenged and haven’t really come together as a community.
West Campus Wonderland
The story till now: South San ISD wants to shut down low performing, low enrollment school. Parents protest and attempt to get a court injunction which is denied. The school district retaliates by suing the parents for court costs. The parents’ lawyer, David Van Os, has a press conference and reads a blog posting supposedly [...]
NISD Oympic Natatorium
Will someone please explain to me how this improves education in Northside? MySA.com: Metro | State Acknowledging that some projects offered partial funding would not be able to move forward, the group agreed — this time in an almost evenly divided vote — to move any money that might be freed up first to fully [...]