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On Wednesday, universities and colleges across Indiana, Minnesota, and Utah announced a pilot project that would set common learning standards across institutions in those states. The project, supported by the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation for Education, will specify a consensus-based set of skills, rather than a subjective number of...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Higher Standards? | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

Some standardization may be desirable, and even necessary, in what is often so subjective an enterprise as education, but the project’s pioneers should tread carefully. While any standardized test—whether MCATs, SATs, or APs—risks encouraging educators to “teach to...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Higher Standards? | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

Arizona State University • Obama is deemed unworthy of an honorary degree by

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

Travis pointed past the empty cul-de-sac toward a huge, silent box of a building. "That's where I worked," he said, "the plant with no smoke coming out of it." Even without a college degree, he had been making $24 an hour there, at the Boise Cascade paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Backlash, Illegal Immigrants Stay Put | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

A graduate of Tokyo University, like so many Japanese leaders, Yosano has some qualities that make him stand apart. As the grandson of well-known modern Romantic poets, he is virtually literary nobility. While his father was on assignment as a diplomat, the young Yosano received some of his schooling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Economic Czar Faces Tough Choices | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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