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  • The Outlaw Campus: Universities have become a rogue institution in need of root-and-branch reform.

    01/07/2014 7:18:13 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    National Review ^ | 01/07/2014 | Victor Davis Hanson
    <p>Two factors have so far shielded the American university from the sort of criticism that it so freely levels against almost every other institution in American life. (1) For decades a college education has been considered the key to an ascendant middle-class existence. (2) Until recently a college degree was not tantamount to lifelong debt. In other words, American society put up with a lot of arcane things from academia, given that it offered something — a BA or BS degree — that almost everyone agreed was a ticket to personal security and an educated populace.</p>
  • CA: Teacher hopes for pardon that would return her to classroom

    12/15/2005 1:24:25 PM PST · by calcowgirl · 12 replies · 432+ views
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | December 15, 2005 | Edwin Garcia
    SACRAMENTO - The state denied Michelle Delk a teaching credential for the same reason she was so highly regarded in the classroom: her criminal past. But now Delk, a former drug addict who turned her life around and taught substance-abuse courses to inmates at the Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas, is trying to make another comeback. And she's counting on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help her do it. If the governor pardons the most serious felony on her record -- a burglary conviction from nine years ago -- Delk could get her adult education teaching credential and return to the...