Monday, December 22, 2014

Happy Holidays


I toyed with writing a quick post about Friday’s release of the federal Department of Education’s “framework” for college ratings based on access, affordability, and outcomes, but decided that no one will have time or interest in reading this close to Christmas.  I’ll work on it for publication next year.

That leaves one item of business and holiday greetings.

The business (or, more accurately, shameless self-promotion):  the previous post regarding the Wainstein report about the academic fraud scandal at UNC-Chapel Hill was one of two selections last Monday in the “Around the Web” section of InsideHigherEd.com, the third time ECA has been mentioned on that website.

The greetings:  ECA wishes “Happy holidays” to all of our readers, whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus or just time away from writing college recommendations and reading college applications.  

In the last school chapel service before Christmas break, our chaplain did a sermon about the theological lessons found in classic cartoon Christmas specials like “Frosty the Snowman,”  “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” and “A Charley Brown Christmas.”  I was hurt that she left out my all-time favorite, “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.” In the spirit of that show and the immortal words of Tiny Tim (the Dickens character, not the ukulele-playing 1960s singer), “God bless us, every one.”

2 comments:

  1. The possible values as mentioned above would even help students in understanding about all those values which must have been understood by them. buy essays online australia

    ReplyDelete
  2. Haryana Board Class 11th is a very crucial stage. At this time they have to choose a particular stream, i.e. either Science, Commerce or Arts. This selection will decide their career ahead. Most often students opt a branch without much investigating its career scope. And due to which they do not take HBSE 11th Class Syllabus 2021-2022 studies seriously and later struggle to score passing marks. So, to avoid this, students must choose the branch of their areas of interest. Also, they must check out the 11th syllabus by the Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE). Students more often plan their studies based on the HBSE Syllabus for Class 11th.

    ReplyDelete