A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Education on Feb 20th, 2008
I’m pleased that my alma mater, Stanford University, has significantly enhanced its undergraduate financial aid program. Specifically, families making less than $100,000 per year will not be charged tuition, and families making less than $60,000 per year will not be charged room and board. Stanford of course will continue its need-blind admission policy, in which […]
Posted in Education on Feb 14th, 2008
Republican state representative Larry Liston apparently believes that he has an innovative method to prevent teen pregnancy. During a recent meeting, he said,
“In my parents’ day and age, they were sent away, they were shunned, they [young, unwed parents] were called what they are. There was at least a sense of shame… There’s no sense […]
Posted in Education on Feb 12th, 2008
The Air Force Academy recently featured three speakers who claimed to be former terrorists who saw the error of their ways only after converting to Christianity. One of the speakers, Walid Shoebat, said, “There is no radical Islam; there is Islam itself.”
Many people have rightly spoken out against this event. However, their complaints have been […]
Posted in Education on Jan 25th, 2008
A school board in Florida has adopted a resolution (pdf link — scroll down to section 6.01) for,
“…the Florida Department of Education to revise/edit the new Sunshine State Standards for Science so that evolution is presented as one of several theories as to how the universe was formed.”
Last I checked, the theory of evolution had […]
Posted in Education on Jan 11th, 2008
Congratulations to health officials in the state of Colorado for rejecting $488,000 in federal funds for abstinence-only sex education. Abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work (links to PDF), but, nonetheless, it takes some courage to turn down almost half a million dollars. I’m glad the Colorado health officials had sense enough to join 13 other states […]