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Testing positive
Each year the College Board sends out Advanced Placement test results in mid-July, ending an agony of waiting for both teachers and students. The results this year were more charged than ever since my nearly 150 test-takers were my very last AP students.
Testing Positive
Each year the College Board sends out Advanced Placement test results in mid-July, ending an agony of waiting for both teachers and students. The results this year were more charged than ever since my nearly 150 test-takers were my very last AP students.
Students grow like onions
Less than two weeks ago, I was a full-time high school teacher, and had been for more than two decades. Although I always teach George Mason University classes during the summer as well as during the regular year, this summer seems different because these students are representative of my future. Now that I have a full-time college job, I will never again teach anyone younger than 19 years old.
Symposium targets college-bound Hispanics
A conference designed to prepare Hispanic youths for college is starting in Richmond.
Jackson’s comments highlight frustrations in black community
Whispered comments by the Rev. Jesse Jackson have opened up a much louder conversation between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and some members of the black community.
Walter E. Williams: Scapegoating speculators
Despite Congress’ periodic hauling of weak-kneed oil executives before their committees to charge them with collusion and price gouging, subsequent federal investigations turn up no evidence to support the charges. Right now oil company executives are getting a bit of a respite as Congress has turned its attention to crude oil speculators, blaming them for high oil prices and calling for tighter control over commodity futures trading.
Walter E. Williams: Humans are ultimate resource
Why is it that mankind enjoys cell phones, computers and airplanes today but not when King Louis XIV was alive? The necessary physical resources to make cell phones, computers and airplanes have always been around, even when cavemen walked the Earth. There is only one answer to why we enjoy these goodies today and not yesteryear. It’s the growth in human knowledge, ingenuity along with specialization and trade that led to industrialization, coupled with personal liberty and private property rights.
Pentagon's top investigator to resign
The Pentagon's inspector general is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight office have strained its ability to probe allegations of waste, fraud and abuse.
Walter E. Williams: Washington does not know better than we do
I have no idea of the number of traffic signals in our country, but whatever the number, how many of my fellow Americans would like the U.S. Congress to be in charge of their operation? Congress, or a committee it authorizes, would determine the length of time red stays red and green stays green and what hours of the day they can be flashing red. |
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