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Quality debate
Coby informs us (directly below): I find a flaw in Liam's reasoning. First of all, the point of the Times blog post is not that the market does a poor job of gauging wine quality, but that there are a lot of shoppers in the market who don't care about the quality of the wine they're swilling.
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Writing for writing's sake
I was just chatting about this after a recent and jolting visit to some of New York's Chelsea galleries--today's art is not judged by how it looks or the skill of the artist who produced it. It's all about ideology, which is a shame.
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Reverse commute
Usually bad ideas flow from academia into our K-12 system. (Think moral relativism, the decline of the core curriculum, dubious pedagogical approaches.) But now one of public education's worst features--its hyper-unionized workforce--is finding its way into higher ed.
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Mein textbook?
The Discovery Institute's David Klinghoffer defends the link--made by the new Ben Stein movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed--between Nazis and Darwinism. I wish I could write on this with more authority, but the D.C.
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A Methodist on Catholic schools
President Bush weighed in on the crisis of Catholic school closures at this morning's National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
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It's a question of quality, not preference
Herewith an argument from the The Pour (yes, the New York Times wine blog) about why rigid standards--and not popularity--is the adequate gauge of quality.
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A wise move
Colorado lawmakers voted put forward a plan yesterday to align state academic standards with the ACT exam.
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Mike takes his Catholic schools act to cable
Fox Business channel must have seen Mike discussing the Catholic schools crisis on the latest episodes of Fordham Factor (here and
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This Week's Fordham Factor: Pope Benedict visits D.C.
Mike and Christina discuss Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States and what he had to say about Catholic schools. httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=xOJnxYJ1U_0
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Re: It's a question of quality, not preference
Liam argues that Fordham is "not content to let the market decide which schools are great and which aren't, because when quality counts, the market is often wrong." This po