Matthew Lamb of The College Conservative offers a rebuttal of the oft-touted claim that raising the minimum wage increases the dignity of work. He argues instead that government-mandated minimum wage increases reduce the dignity of working and make it harder to find work.
Minimum Wages, Dignity, and Value
Proponents of raising the minimum...
Professor Julio Pino quotes Fidel Castro in his open letter to “academic friends of Israel.” Fidel Castro. That alone should discredit everything else he writes.
If you’re not outraged enough already, know that Kent State is a public university that benefits from over $137 million in taxpayer funds.
“Professor” Pino, by the way,...
Do you have a knack for scientific research and a sweet tooth? Then world-premier Cambridge University might just have the sweetest offer for you: a three-and-a-half year research project into the properties of chocolate in warm weather.
Maev Kennedy of The Guardian reports:
PhD in chocolate – a sweet job on offer at...
Two weeks ago I wrote a short piece reviewing various college ranking methods, with the two conclusions that none is perfect and that they are not a whole lot pertinent to deciding which college to attend.
However, for a growing number of young people the following two ranking categories might become serious...
The people of Steubenville, Ohio would do some good in this world if they boycott each of this football team’s home games.
Jen Steer reports:
Steubenville teen guilty of rape returns to high school football team: Reaction
One of the two Steubenville teens convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl is back on the high...
S.E. Cupp interviews a Millennial currently serving in Congress, Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL).
Click on the link below to see the interview. Below is Cupp’s introduction:
What millennials want to hear from politicians
Millennials will represent nearly 40% of the voting population by the year 2020, and the race is on to win this...
Cornell has suspended the visiting scholar upon further development in this case.
Tyler Alicea of the Cornell Daily Sun has the story:
Former Cornell Visiting Scholar Arrested for Reportedly Groping Woman on Flight
A former Cornell visiting scholar was arrested after groping a woman’s breast on a flight from Tokyo, according to federal prosecutors.
Eun-jong...
Former MIT Sloan School of Management professor Gabriel Bitran and his son plead guilty to charges of running a fraudulent hedge fund investment scheme.
From 2005 to 2011, the two ran GMB Capital Management LLC. During the time, they raised over $500 million in funds to invest and took fees of $16...
During the 2009-2010 academic year, six Cornell students committed suicide. Three of them did so in the second semester jumping off the school’s iconic–and now somewhat notorious–bridges that traverse very deep gorges. The first to do so was Michael Bradley, a freshman with no history of mental illness who was reportedly...
For those that are unfamiliar, AP (Advanced Placement) courses are high school courses that have end-of-the-year exams that are supposed to represent the rigor of introductory-level college courses. Every few years the College Board, which writes the exams and designs the curriculum, revamps the courses and tests.
Recently, the College Board has...
Let’s see how obstructionist Purdue University is going to be in this matter. It really has little to gain by not releasing the video and much to lose if it does not.
Kendall Downing of Fox 59 reports:
Student newspaper files suit against Purdue University
Purdue’s student newspaper is suing the university for access...
College dropouts with zany ideas and a knack for a little computer programming have struck again. This time, it’s with an app called “Push for Pizza,” which, as you’ve already guessed, allows you to select either cheese or pepperoni pizza for delivery.
That’s right, you enter your address and credit card information...
Born after the Holocaust, the Six Days War, the Yom Kippur War, the Munich Olympic Massacre, and too young to remember Iran’s threat to “wipe Israel off the map,” young Americans are the only age demographic to find Israel’s current actions in the conflict with Hamas unjustified.
Niall Stanage has the story:
Are...
The two lead Common Core math creators responded to an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal we linked to a few days ago. That piece was written by renowned Berkeley math professor Marina Ratner.
Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart has the story:
LEAD COMMON CORE MATH WRITERS DEFEND STANDARDS: ‘APPROPRIATELY RIGOROUS’
Writing at...
Paul Krugman says inequality in education leads to lower economic growth.
Kevin D. Williamson of the National Review argues instead that bad education leads to both inequality and lower economic growth.
Inequality in Education
Paul Krugman and other like-minded gentlemen keep trying to make a case for more aggressive redistribution of income, but they...
Opinion on public teacher pay is bimodal: either teachers are overpaid or they are underpaid.
According to this Forbes article, teachers on average are actually paid a fair, appropriate amount.
Jeffery Dorfman of Forbes investigates:
Low Teacher Pay And High Teacher Pay Are Both Myths
Google “low teacher pay,” “teachers paid too much,” or any...
Caffeine, alcohol, and fast food are Millennials’ top three vices according to a survey conducted by Level Money.
Gluttony well represented, but what lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride?
From Hadley Malcom of USA Today:
Millennials spend big bucks on these vices
Millennials are giving into temptation and shelling out hundreds of dollars a...
The term “wealth gap” has officially jumped the shark. It’s now being used to describe the disparity in spending among different college sports conferences.
Steve Eder of the New York Times reports:
Fears Rise Over Wealth Gap as Top College Conferences Push Overhaul
The head football coach at Alabama makes $6.9 million a year,...
Robert eich is a minimum wage increase warrior whose name is surfacing once again because of this piece he recently wrote characteristically criticizing big business, Wall St. types, free market capitalism, and the Ivy League.
However, publicly-available salary information shows that to teach one class last year at University of California at...
I never heard anyone ever say going to a more selective college or university increases one’s likelihood of graduating.
In fact, based on my own experience concerning friends of mine this past year, I’d say attending more selective schools, if anything, would decrease the likelihood of graduating at all or graduating on...
Quoth Michael Mulgrew, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT): “And I’m going to punch you in the face and push you in the dirt because this is the teachers!”
This is teachers.
The AFT’s new slogan, perhaps?
Dr. Susan Berry of Breitbart has the story:
TEACHERS UNION PREZ DELIVERS FIERY, THREATENING RANT AGAINST...
Professor emerita of mathematics Marina Ratner at the University of California at Berkeley offers a scathing criticism of Common Core. She refutes the notion that Common Core standards are internationally bench-marked and says the new math curriculum will, to the effect, dumb down students.
To send Common Core to the dust bin...
