Category Archives: education
Hillary Believes
Hillary believes rape victims. Sometimes.
At a press conference this week Mrs. Clinton said college women who claim they were raped should be believed. She even reinforced her remarks by tweeting this little video saying you have a right to be believed.
A discredited Rolling Stone story earlier this year showed that’s not always the case.
What was Hillary thinking? Maybe was reaching out to Juanita Broaddrick. This is from a February 25, 1999 article by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post:
Juanita Broaddrick told her story to a national television audience last night, saying she did not tell authorities 21 years ago of her contention that Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her because “I just don’t think anyone would have believed me.”
Back to School
Labor Day is the traditional end of summer break but it seems most kids now stagger back to school in mid-August. All that late summer sweat doesn’t seem to be making them any smarter. The average SAT score in 2015 was 1490, down from 1524 in 2006.
School Costs
IBD says the Department of Educaton runs over 100 grant programs at a cost of $100 billion with nothing to show for it.
Meanwhile student debt is soaring. According the LA Times, tuition and fees rose from $1,832 at an average private 4 year school in 1972 to $31,231 in 2015. Student loans are up 76% to $1.2 trillion since 2009.
The median household income in 1972 was $8,282 according to US Census stats. It was $48,874 in 2012. According to my cartoon math private college costs consume 63% of a family budget now compared to 22% 40 years ago. Paul F. Campos, in the NYT, says if car prices had risen at the same rate as tuition the average car would now cost $80,000.
Why would that be?
Professor Campos blames it on exploding administrative salaries. Utah State Professor William Shugart II writing for American Thinker cites a NY Federal Reserve study to blame federal subsidy itself.
Scary Ideas
You know things have come to a head when liberal academics are afraid of their own students. The professoriate may be protected by tenure from firing but not from Title IX lawsuits.
Campus speech codes and government pressure have fostered an atmosphere where students feel they deserve to be protected from scary ideas and facts don’t matter. Not exactly the traditional point of an expensive college education.
Here’s a Chicago Tribune editorial denouncing Northwestern University for its kangaroo court treatment of communications professor Laura Kipnis. And here is Professor Kipnis’s offending article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. On the bright side, David French, in National Review, thinks this could be the beginning of the end of PC culture.
One and Done
Duke won the national title with three one and done rental players. Stephen Moore in IBD wonders “How can it be constitutional or ethical in America for the NBA to deny a 19-year-old the opportunity to make a living with its minimum-age requirement?”
College Football Playoff Bonus
Urban Meyer earned a $50,000 bonus with Ohio State’s dramatic win over Alabama in the first College Football Playoff. According to Bloomberg that’s one of the lower bonuses in the new world of college football.
