September 23, 2008
MTC: Fixing the Anything-Goes Philosophy at Brown
Charlotte Allen
Brown University is famous for having the loosest graduation requirements in the Ivy League. In fact, there are almost no graduation requirements at all, for although Brown undergrads do have to major......
September 18, 2008
MTC: A Report From Nowhere
Peter Wood
A group called Strong American Schools has just issued a report with the provocative title Diploma to Nowhere. The report is a lavishly produced cry of alarm: our high schools are failing. Millions of......
September 8, 2008
MTC: Abandoning The SAT: Why?
Charlotte Allen
Fewer and fewer high school students are taking the SAT exam these days---possibly because fewer colleges are requiring the submission of SAT scores as part of the admissions process. According to the......
June 16, 2008
MTC: The Model Minority Myth?
Charlotte Allen
A recently released report that claims to poke holes in the idea of Asian-American students as the "model minority" - excelling academically and outperforming white students in mathematics, engineerin......