POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Daniel Radosh, the head writer for the Daily Show, sent the following note along with a signed permission slip that would permit his son to read Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 as part of a school book club: “I love this letter! What a wonderful way to introduce students to the theme…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Whereas the primary mission of Ohio’s colleges and universities is to educate students, Whereas colleges and universities have increasingly and irresponsibly devoted resources to bloated administrative bureaucracies, to equally ambitious and expensive sports programs supported by ever-more elaborate and more expensive athletic facilities, and a seemingly endless succession of other expensive…
BY MARTIN KICH Ann Coulter Tweet: “If only people with at least 4 grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.” Beyond the very obvious echoing of the Nazi race laws (but I am sure that the echo is completely coincidental), this tweet ignores that fact that three of Trump’s…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Whereas the state funding for public higher education has been declining for the last 30 years, Whereas the State Share of Instruction (SSI) accounts for only about 13 percent of institutional budgets, Whereas Ohio ranks 12th in the nation for highest average student debt, Whereas it is no longer possible for…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following page is from a College Board Report on Student Debt: Of course, one of the factors in this decline has been the closure of several of the largest for-profit chains with dozens of campuses nationwide and the dramatic decline in enrollment at the major online for-profit institutions. So, although…
BY MARTIN KICH These are the results of a presidential polling of K-8 students conducted by Scholastic. The first of these students should be eligible to vote in the 2024 presidential election. I think that the results are fairly remarkable, given that the professoriate has not yet had the opportunity to indoctrinate these students with…