All over America, jails cells are crashing shut as classroom doors are swinging closed. Eager inmates and students are doing their time to eventually obtain their goal – getting out and getting a job. Yet too often is the case that former inmates lose their motivation and opportunity to pursue an education that [...]

William Shakespeare wrote, “If music be the food of love, play on.” Apparently America’s children are in the midst of an artistic famine. According to the New York Times, eighth graders are concluding their junior high careers on a scholastic low note, performing at a “mediocre” level in fine art courses. The [...]

The graduation rate for some of the country’s worst schools is morbidly low. Detroit’s school system is one of these ailing districts, holding a graduation rate of less than 30%. Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, is endeavoring to turn these schools around or fall flat on his face. In the short [...]

Karl Kraus said “Squeeze human nature into the straightjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.” For all those interested in the field of criminal justice however, do not use North Korea as a model. The New York Times reports that the North Korean judicial body has sentenced two American journalists to 12 [...]

A Venti-sized issue is on the plates of the Starbucks Corporation. As the recession deepens and the American obsession with nutrition strengthens, consumers are demanding better food at cheaper prices from all eateries. As the Seattle based coffee giant began to see sales plummet, the head honchos decided to overhaul the menu to [...]

The Post-9/11 GI Bill, taking effect on August 1, increases educational aid for veterans who served at least 90 days after the terrorist attacks of September 2001. This revised version of the bill adds an incentives package far greater than the one provided by the 1944 GI Bill. This fruitful new law is [...]

Ask a class full of children to draw a scientist on a piece of paper. Surveys show that the overwhelming majority will draw a white male in a lab coat. What is even more disturbing is that most of the rest of the class will draw an angry looking woman in a lab [...]

Knock Knock
Who’s there?
Curry!
Curry who?
Curry me back home with you!
As the immoral Woody Allen once said, “There’s great wisdom in jokes.” Well, this gag is no different. A new nutrition study has come out, led by Professor Murali Doraiswamy of Duke University, which found that eating a curry meal two or three times a [...]