May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
Gender pay gap: what's it worth?
by mikepower
Girls may well opt for arts degrees over engineering, but that's not because nobody has told them that engineers earn more than academics - it's because the 'male' professions have fallen out of favour even among men.
February 2006
Educators face blowback for protesting Iraq war
by mikepower
Just over three years ago, as the nation readied for war with Iraq, elementary school teacher Deb Mayer stood in front of her class and uttered the word that would get her blacklisted from her profession - 'Peace'
January 2006
Skirting around the school's 'dress' code
by mikepower
A ban on a New Jersey schoolboy wearing flowery skirts to school has been overturned after the American Civil Liberties Union claimed his rights were being violated.
Will the University Survive?
by mikepower & 1 other
Will the University Survive? Is the cultivation of inquisitiveness only available for four interest-bearing payments of $19,999 at State U.? "When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course." — Peter Drucker
Nuvvo Free On-demand eLearning
by mikepower & 14 others
For many years, online learning or eLearning has been a promise not fully realized. Nuvvo is your way to teach on the web. Everyone knows a little bit about something, and this free web service is designed to bring out the teacher in you
May 2005
Immigration isn't the issue: Brendan O'Neill
by mikepower
Among the political class, ‘the immigration issue’ has become code for their own fear and loathing of the white working class.
March 2005
Kevin Meyers: At last the light is shone on the IRA
by mikepower
No event in Northern Ireland in recent years has distilled the abominable and corrupted reality of life under the peace process as the murder of Robert McCartney. Half beaten to death, one eye gouged out, his throat cut, and then gutted like a fish...
Making learning uncool: The establishment disses education as much as hip-hop ‘playas’.
by mikepower
It wasn't Jay-Z who grabbed headlines by declaring that 'learning history is a bit dodgy'. That was the former education secretary, Charles Clarke.
February 2005
The new Chief Inquisitor on campus
by mikepower
From ethics committees to ‘learning outcomes’, the threat to academic freedom comes from within the university as much as from without. By Frank Ferudi
January 2005
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein
by mikepower & 17 others
The books which defined the way The West thinks now Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.
Philip Pullman: Common sense has much to learn from moonshine
by mikepower
If we want children to write well, giving them formal instruction in grammar turns out not to be any use; getting them actually writing seems to help a great deal more. There was no evidence at all that the teaching of grammar had any beneficial effect on
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