Thursday, March 19


Editorial: Access to information necessary for freedom

Pretend you could go online but you couldn’t access most major news sites or search engines, many major education sites or even Wikipedia. For many of us, this would seem similar to life before the Internet, when information wasn’t free and learning was more work than it is now. Read more...


Editorial: Scandals mar federal education programs

It’s not surprising anymore to hear scandal and controversy from President Bush’s education initiatives. The latest scandal to surface includes evidence of conflict of interest in the Reading First Program, which administers $6 billion in grants so districts can buy the materials necessary to ensure that all low-income children learn to read. Read more...



Beware of easy knee-jerk reactions

Editor’s note: This post was updated to remove an insensitive tagline. In my opinion, he was asking for it. When Mostafa Tabatabainejad refused to present his BruinCard in Powell Library when asked during a routine check by Community Service Officers, scoffing at them and police, it created an uproar, the fallout of which has graced airwaves and prompted headlines internationally. Read more...


Letters to the Editor

Government should stay out of sex ed I agree with Katie Strickland that the government should stay out of funding sexual education. But to claim that the Bush administration is unjustly catering to its base with its abstinence education policies is hypocritical and absurd. Read more...