SHARE        Sunday, September 6, 2009
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Regarding the Advanced Placement Program Misreported statistics about the Advanced Placement program are misleading the public about the program's success.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 2, 2009
A Positive Sport's Message A decision to disobey his college football coach by NFL player Mike Golic, illustrates an important psychological principle.

(7 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 23, 2009
What's Wrong with a Free Press Why the press should rely less on anonymous sources.

SHARE        Friday, June 26, 2009
Garbage In, Newsweek Data Out Newsweek's high school ranking methodology distorts reality and misleads the public.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Nonsensical Rankings From Those People Who Bring You Nonsense An evaluation of three school rankings' systems (Newsweek, Washington Post, and USN&WR) and why you should ignore them.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 2, 2009
A Cut California Governor Shouldn't Make Why Governor Schwarzenegger should not slash funding for Hastings College of the Law

SHARE        Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Reporting the News Well and, Well, Not so Well The story of the Montana plane crash and how it was handled by two newspapers.

SHARE        Sunday, September 4, 2011
Behind the great Firewall In recent weeks, access to two stories from the Washington Post about China - one on media censorship - have been blocked by Firewall censors. Those handicaps are ongoing reminders that Chinese media operate with one hand tied behind its back.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 30, 2008
Real SAT Ire...Really Why college admissions' offices should dump the SAT and require subject tests.

SHARE        Monday, October 20, 2008
Baylor Shoots at USN&WR Rankings...And Then Backs Down How one college devised a clever plan to game USN&WR's college rankings and then changed its policy in response to criticism

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 27, 2014
Don't Worry, Be Happy Thailand's complicated political scene is largely misunderstood in the West.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 8, 2009
Paying Students to Perform Several recent programs in which low income high school students are being paid for successfully completing college courses are showing some promising results.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 16, 2009
National Education Standards and Tests are Unlike the SAT A response to a recent Christian Science Monitor commentary that equated problems with the SAT with the problems we might expect to encounter in developing national educational standards for states.

SHARE        Friday, October 10, 2008
Cheer Up America, You Could be In France or Switzerland A reprieve from the economic news with a look overseas

SHARE        Saturday, October 11, 2008
Education Gap Widens and No One Cares Widening racial gap in educational performance that has become so commonplace that we no longer see it

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 16, 2013
Colleges, not the Supreme Court, Should Control Admissions' Policies The upcoming affirmative action case to be decided by the Supreme Court is about more than race.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 25, 2010
How the Internet can Benefit Journalism A specific instance of how using the Internet can improve what we read in a newspaper.

SHARE        Friday, August 28, 2009
When Newspapers Become Fish Wrap How newspapers are letting us down.

SHARE        Thursday, October 9, 2008
Media Mangles Education News... Again A study about college admissions tests

SHARE        Friday, October 30, 2009
Covering up the News The overuse of anonymous sources.