The NY Times published this excellent editorial, but missed one important item that is destructive to our democracy. Here is the link, followed by my comment. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/opinion/sunday/trump-tape-fundraiser.html You write that there are “a pair of intertwined developments…that have magnified the influence of money…” Thomas Jefferson would add one more – the development that, without which, […]
Francis Fukuyama Misses a Point
January 26, 2020 by
I posted this comment on his op-ed. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/01/24/why-red-blue-america-cant-hear-each-other-anymore/?arc404=true) A critical factor, one not missed by Thomas Jefferson, is left out of this analysis. All I have space to do here is quote Jefferson – and point out that of the 26 least educated states (See wallethub.com/edu/e/most-educated-states/31075/) all but Nevada and New Mexico went for Trump. […]
NY Times Op-Ed Misses Big Difference
December 21, 2019 by
My comment on the Op-Ed (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/opinion/impeachment-trump-nixon.html#commentsContainer ) is below. The authors left off the most important difference. Here is Thomas Jefferson on that difference. “…Preach…a crusade against ignorance…improve the law for educating the common people…the people alone can protect us against…evil…kings, priests and nobles…will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance…” […]
WSJ: College Board Selling Data
November 10, 2019 by
Opinion | Liberal Hypocrisy in College Admissions? – The New York Times. Me “So What’s New?”
October 28, 2018 by
I wrote: “…how radical some professors can be when they look at the external world and how conservative when they look inwardly at themselves…” (Clark Kerr, from the 2001 Preface to “The Uses of the University”) (Clark Kerr was a highly regarded sociologist and a Chancellor of the Univ. of Cal. system. He is the […]
Some 43% of College Grads Are Underemployed in First Job – WSJ
October 27, 2018 by
Source: Some 43% of College Grads Are Underemployed in First Job – WSJ I commented. Wonder why they don’t get jobs that require a college education? Read this. Today’s “degree” is not your grandmother’s college “education”… From Arum and Roksa’s… “Academically Adrift”, we learn that, after four years of college, average critical thinking improved by […]
How Corrupt Higher Education Corrupts K-12 Education
October 24, 2018 by
The corruption of higher education has sent waves throughout all American education, and thus, all of American society. Here is how those waves have traveled and washed away much of what used to be the broad based educational foundations of our economy, our politics, and our society. ● These waves start with a poor undergraduate […]
More Than a College Graduation Gap
March 26, 2018 by
Source: The Growing College Graduation Gap – The New York Times It’s also a learning gap. Until the public wakes up to the realities of college, those gaps will only get worse. I taught for three decades, first at a regional state school, then at private research university. I know of what I speak; but, […]
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