This book review contains spoilers about The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater. The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater is a nonfiction book about a crime in Oakland in 2013. One annoying teenager set another annoying teenager on fire on a bus for no good reason or any reason at all. The crime was like the […]
Category: education
Should You Be in Favor of Canceling Student Debt?
There are any number of wonderfully cynical almost old people who have learned the hard way that student debt is one of those things that can screw you over. Sometime back oh almost 20 years ago or even more, the United States figured out how to make a college education a big fat scam. A […]
Make Americans Great Again – Part 2
Second in a series in which we look at how Americans rank in different categories against the citizens of other nations around the world. Because obviously, if you want to ‘make America great again’, you’ve got to have great Americans doing that. Right? So let’s take a look at how Americans are doing in various […]
Improving Public Education
Would emphasizing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) subjects improve public education? STEM advocates think it would. They think STEM subjects naturally compel students to make decisions based on data and evidence, analyze and solve problems using creativity, and test the solutions they come up with. Advocates are pretty sure that all of this is […]
