All Posts Tagged With: "academic achievement"
School Choice
The overall quality of primary and secondary education received by white students is nothing to write home about. The very fact that 30 percent of college freshmen require remedial education, at a cost of over $2 billion, is pretty good evidence that there is widespread fraud in the conferring of high-school diplomas. That level of [...]
17Jun2009 | Walter E. Williams | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/2
Voodoo Science by Robert Park Oxford University Press — 2000 — 230 pages — $25.00 Reviewed by Patrick J. Michaels I really wanted to like Robert Park’s Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud a lot more than I did. It’s a pretty good book about how bad science manages to prosper and replicate, [...]
1Feb2002 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | Continued-
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