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It's time to question college degree's worth

Today's economic downturn has blindsided a generation of young people around the globe brought up to believe that a college degree guaranteed them...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 02/08/09 by Walt Gardner · More from publication
Top collegians won't solve what ails classrooms

I repeatedly hear the argument about the urgent need to recruit the brightest college graduates--regardless of their lack of any education...
School Administrator, 10/01/08 by Walt Gardner · More from publication
LESSONS FROM FINLAND: Scandinavian country shows way to education excellence

This commentary describes how and why Finland's education system is far superior to the one in the United States. But much of the implied criticism...
CCPA Monitor, 10/01/08 by Gardner, Walt · More from publication
'Teaching to the test' is not the same as cheating

LOS ANGELES -- I have a confession to make. For the entire 28 years that I taught high school English, I taught to the test. And I'm proud to...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 04/20/08 by Walt Gardner Christian Science Monitor · More from publication
Scores shortchange U.S. education

LOS ANGELES -- America's voracious appetite for rankings was temporarily sated in early December by the release of scores on the 2006 Program For...
Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 12/30/07 by Walt Gardner · More from publication
Trumped up charges

The situation at Clear Creek Elementary School in Bloomington, Indiana, is not an isolated case ("A Chill in the Classroom," by Matthew Rothschild,...
Progressive, The, 05/01/06 by Walt Gardner · More from publication

The mail.(Letter to the Editor)

In "Reform-Related Deficits Are Not to Be Feared" (March), John Makin suggests that we issue large amounts of federal debt in order to finance a...
American Enterprise, The, 04/01/05 by Gardner, Walt; Huang, Michael; Peterson, Peter G.; Wolansky, Taras · More from publication
Don't blame the schools

Craig Barrett's claim that the U.S. is doomed economically because our public schools are failing ("Fixing America's Educational System," Agenda...
Chief Executive, The, 01/01/05 by Walt Gardner · More from publication
Breakdown

During the 1960s, as a classroom teacher in the Los Angeles unified school district, I saw firsthand how the student-rights movement eroded the...
National Review, 12/13/04 by Walt Gardner · More from publication
The mail.(Letter to the Editor)

According to Garrison Nelson in "Keeping Cool in New England" (October/November), John Kerry is imbued with the "Brahmin's sense of public duty...
American Enterprise, The, 12/01/04 by Blum, Rod; Gardner, Walt; McClaughry, John; Tullock, Gordon · More from publication