LITERARY INSIGHT from PRESENT & PAST " WHATWE’RE READING In D.C., only 42% of seniors are on track to graduate at the end of the current school year, down from 73% who graduated in the 2016-17 school year. D.C. Schools Brace for Catastrophic Drop in Graduation Rates U.S. News &World Report
Why did I go into teaching? Looking back it was crazy that I would do that. But I’d been through high school and college without getting caught – so being a teacher seemed a good place to hide. Nobody suspects a teacher of not knowing how to read. ‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’ BBC News When you first meet friends and colleagues of Dr. Robert Cade, the inventor of Gatorade, Gator-Go, Hop-n-Gator, the hydraulic football helmet, the irradiated pecan and the hemispherical shoe- polish can, they invariably inform you that he is a genius; in the next breath they inquire if Dr. Cade told you about the time he got arrested for riding his bicycle while intoxicated. The Bottle and the Babe Sports Illustrated , 1968 He’s always got the new data, featuring irresistible twists: One in five students use extra money from their student loans to buy digital currencies. Nearly 8% of students would move to North Korea to free themselves of their debt. And 27% would contract the Zika virus to live debt-free... Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He’s Not Real The Chronicle of Higher Education High costs, indifferent teachers, hours devoted to subjects that have little to do with earning a living in the real world: Is it all worth it? Review: Deciding Against the Paper Chase Wall Street Journal
Louisville came to embody the contradictions of college athletics – a multibillion-dollar industry built on amateur athletes... and built on “the biggest taxpayer scandal in the history of Louisville.” How a midlevel school became The University of Adidas at Louisville ESPN To understand just how unaffordable owning a home can be in American cities today, look at the case of a teacher in San Francisco seeking his or her first house... Educators in the City by the Bay can afford less than 1% of homes currently on the market. Why buying a house today is so much harder than in 1950 Curbed
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