Back in the 1980s and 1990s, and likely before that, the University of Southern California (USC) had the reputation of a “safety school.” The biggest challenge to what some referred to as the University of Spoiled Children was the nosebleed tuition, not attaining the proverbial fat envelope. Fast forward to the present, and USC […]
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The Roots of STEM Excellence” can’t be found in instruction, but in people too brilliant to be held down by non-admission to an elite school, or a lack of schooling altogether.
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Remarkable abundance will be one of the many benefits of more automated production and thought, and from it will emerge all sorts of jobs that never could have been work in the past.
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Markets are wise, and it’s in the countries where foreign producers are aggressively pursuing and gaining market share the most that you know the future is brightest.
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It’s not social media or online activity imperiling young people, rather it’s mistakes, including mistakes borne of faulty parental supervision. There ought to be a law? No.
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Joseph Epstein has been writing really great books and columns for years, including one on gambling in the Wall Street Journal last week. He’s always entertaining, and his autobiography is no exception.
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As opposed to AI destroying it, its allegedly broad usage more realistically indicates that higher education has destroyed itself.
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The exciting features of the school Jack would like to build are many more than the ones mentioned in this write-up. They all raise questions having to do with how to build a school that, at least for now, only exists in the imagination of Jack.
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Parents will embrace a change that technology will make simple. Kids will finally get to sleep in, and because they’ll be able to sleep in, mornings will be much less of a nightmare. Isn’t “Big Tech” awful?
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Good and bad decisions come to mind as certain colleges and universities start to abolish “legacy admissions.” The University of Virginia is the latest school to do it. And that’s too bad.
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