The newest edition of The Gadfly is out and jammed with choice offerings, especially an essay that concludes "that for long-term sustainability and academic success, a charter school has better odds if it enrolls at least 300 students. " The small-school crowd won't like it.
In his latest riposte, Liam argues that I've ignored the ethical dimension of the student-pay debate.
Greg Toppo has a thorough piece in USA Today about school lunches. Long story short: They're disgusting.
That seems to be the premise of this Washington Post op-ed by a first-year Yale Law School student (
Today in The Gadfly, I write about George Orwell's claim that bad writing and bad thinking are mutually reinforcing. I focus on the most egregious cases: sentences punctuated by text-message spellings and abbreviations and plagued by rotten grammar and rampant ambiguity.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist stands with the state legislature, which just passed an anti-bullying law. "I'm against bullying, too," he said. And I'm against purposeless laws that waste everyone's time.
If you need further evidence of the coarsening of our culture, then read Ian Shapira's piece in Monday's Washington Post.
