The New York Times (District May End N.C. Economic Diversity Program) describes the polarization of the Wake County school district’s economic diversity policy. The distance wealthier children have to travel from their home, performance scores, and discipline rates are discussed as touchstones for measuring progress or failure, yet there are two major flaws in this article. [...]
The Washington Post published an interesting opinion piece on the word Retard and the effort of the Special Olympics and others to eliminate its use in everyday speech (The case against banning the word “retard”). Within the piece, the offense and harm the word causes is overridden with an argument for free speech, an assertion [...]
An article in today’s BusinessWeek (Health Care: Rx for MBA Job Blues) gushes over the opportunities for MBAs in the healthcare industry; “I feel like a kid in a candy shop” is the quote they selected from an aspiring MBA student. My advice to new MBAs as someone who works in healthcare and has one: [...]
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Between a Jan. 31, 2010 New York Times Op-ed (Sex Ed in Washington) and follow-up responses on Feb. 6 (Sex Ed, With No Federal Strings?) debating the merits and disconnects of sexual education, the Times reported on the findings of a recent study of an abstinence-only intervention (Quick Response to Study of Abstinence Education). From the [...]
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