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Tag Archives: Education
Italian Corruption: A Professor’s Anecdote
In the United States potential professors get their Ph.D. degree and then solicit employment at a university. In Italy, however, post-graduate students must pass a test conducted and graded by current professors. The problem is that while in theory the test results are based on merit, in actuality the relationship with the grading professor is what matters. Continue reading
One Factor Behind America’s Poor K-12 Education System
The best and the brightest view teaching K-12 as a demeaning profession. Go to a class in Harvard, for instance, and ask what the students there want to do after they graduate. There will be lots of future investment bankers, lawyers, and politicians. There will probably very few K-12 teachers, if any at all. Continue reading
The DREAM Act
The Obama administration has been remarkably indecisive on the subject of immigration. On the one hand, it talks a lot about its support for a bill legalizing undocumented immigrants. On the other hand, it has also deported more undocumented immigrants … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration
Tagged DREAM Act, Education, immigrants, Immigration, Politics, students
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