Failure rates
The St Pete Times story on high-school graduation-test failures in Pinellas County (which includes St. Petersburg) reports that approximately 10 percent of seniors in the county have failed their last-chance try at the high-school graduation test in Florida. They will be receiving “certificates of completion” rather than a standard diploma—an exit document that is useless […]
Psychologizing as the exception now
I just finished reading a student paper that distorted most of the cited class readings, turning them into an explanation of where juvenile delinquents became psychologically abnormal. This is evidence that the student had not quite learned the message I’ve been pounding for the entire semester: this course isn’t psychology. It’s humanities and social-science perspectives […]