Student Counsel : Talking Sense with <em>The Education of Shelby...
Everything’s bigger in Texas, or so the saying goes, and that may be truest in the realm of sex-education controversy. Texas, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of teen pregnancy and sexually...
View ArticleLearning Curve : Radical “unschooling” moms are changing the stay-at-home...
Not long ago, homeschooling was thought of as the domain of hippie earth mothers letting their kids "do their own thing" or creationist Christians shielding their kids from monkey science and...
View ArticleIowa, Nice!
Although I’ll never understand how enough force could gather behind the idea of inviting Karl Rove – recently named “The Worst Person Ever” – to the University of Iowa’s college graduation, I’m glad to...
View ArticleTrying to keep up
Clearly I'm not one of those people who can keep my blog up-to-the-minute, but I want to mention two more things about my visit to Detroit, even though I'm actually two states beyond at this point....
View ArticleI Love (an Idealized, Hypermasculine Version of) College
I know that I posted a get-ready-for-tomorrow's-Douchebag-Decree-by-reading-about-another-douchebag piece last week, but this week finds me with yet another d-bag on the brain (or rather, the YouTube...
View ArticleI Love (an Idealized, Hypermasculine Version of) College: An Update
A few weeks back, Kelsey blogged about Asher Roth's heteronormative, hypermasculinized, fratboy-centric conception of college. Though Kelsey deemed Roth to be singing in a serious as opposed to...
View ArticleLies and the Lying Feminists Who Tell Them: the latest from Christina Hoff...
“Feminist misinformation is pervasive,” Christina Hoff Sommers writes in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education.“Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship” is the latest from the author of Who Stole...
View ArticleTip of my hat to Stephen Colbert
I couldn't help but share this clip from last night's Colbert Report. In his 'Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger' segment, Colbert talks about new efforts to de-gender language found in textbooks. (more...
View ArticleNotre Dame Hires Pro-Choice Catholic as New Football Coach
Word came yesterday: The University of Notre Dame has hired Brian Kelly away from the University of Cincinnati to be its new football coach. Kelly, a pro-choice Catholic with extraordinary coaching...
View ArticleBound by Raw Survival: Working Class Women Writers
In Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire wrote, "Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the state of their struggle for...
View ArticleThe Biotic Woman: My Enviro-Oscars Roundup
Even before I did my stint in a graduate film program, I was a pretty big fan of the Academy Awards. Though I've gotten increasingly less glamorous in my old age, I still enjoy the consistency of the...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: Cash vs. Cachet: The Potential Intern's...
One thing you'll notice if you spend any time following youth issues in the media is that coverage comes in waves. The Pew releases a report, new employment stats for the quarter come out, etc. and all...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: Expiration Dated
I hate to break it to you, but we have a sell-by date. We're perishable, dude. Highly perishable. I spoke these words to a friend as we meandered down the street engaged in another one of our snarky,...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: Mo' Education, Mo' Problems?
According to a study by the London School of Economics, British women with degrees are 86 percent more likely to drink frequently and to report having a drinking problem than those women without...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: Beating Playboy's Listmakers at Their Own Game
Although the list was released last month, the HuffPo's college arm is just now getting around to devoting linkbaity ink to Playboy's fourth annual compilation of Top Ten Party Schools. If you haven't...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: The Beltway Brat Pack
I read the New York Time's recent piece on Obama's young staffers with avid interest. I confess that the human dimension of political clout (and how it's gained and wielded) fascinates me endlessly....
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: What Comes from Questioning the Value of College?
Photo by Lou FCD Lately, there's been a lot of talk (recession-driven in large part) about the real value of a college education, both in the media and that I've been privy to in my own circles. The...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: Playing DJ for the Class of 2010
The supermarket where I shop plays music of a certain vintage (which, as we've recently discussed, could be anything from last year's Billboard Top 40 to ditties from the War of 1812). The other day it...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: An Interview with Refuse the Silence's...
I stumbled across Morgane Richardson's Refuse the Silence project via a link on Twitter. Immediately, it made me think of a discussion in the comments section of an earlier Y...
View ArticleThe Young and The Feckless: Nothin' but Net(working)
It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been on the job search in the last two or three years that networking is now being held up as the be all and end all of job hunting strategies. Normally, I...
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