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America’s Pathetic Poison Ivy League Colleges

Big Red Car — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:52:46 +0000

America’s prestigious Ivy League schools — Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Yale University — have lost their luster amidst a woke leftward lurch that has built for decades. The chickens have now come home to roost, America. Isn’t that the truth, Harvard? Two moronic […]

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Women Are Better Educated Than Men?

Big Red Car — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:33:59 +0000

Comes now the data that suggests women are more likely to attend college — thereby becoming better educated — than men. Can this be true? No way, Big Red Car. Fine, dear reader, let me show you a graph: This graph was created in 2016 and the current numbers — 2021 — are even worse […]

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Cheat From Home — Online Learning

Big Red Car — Thu, 07 May 2020 13:59:20 +0000

Higher education has a new problem — how to administer and proctor tests in an online learning environment. How does online learning deal with cheat from home? How does a professor ensure that her students are not cheating as they take those tests and final exams? All of you engineers with your open book problem […]

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Herman Wouk, 103, RIP

Big Red Car — Sun, 19 May 2019 20:49:55 +0000

Herman Wouk, an American writer of substantial importance has died. The Pulitzer Prize author of such masterpieces as “The Caine Mutiny” was 103, only 10 days from his 104th birthday. He was described as a man who made American literature “kinder, gentler, better” by his peers upon the occasion of his 80th birthday. An extraordinary […]

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Millennials, Males – Modern Men?

Big Red Car — Sat, 30 Apr 2016 13:30:52 +0000

Big Red Car here on the heels of a Texas thunderstorm of respectable proportions. Lightning, thunder, rain, wind — ah, we love the rain this time of year in Texas. Last night we got it. Big time. Let’s talk millennials, shall we? So the Big Red Car has been thinking about Millennials, particularly the male […]

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The MOOC Comes of Age in Texas — Freshman Year for Free!

Big Red Car — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 14:06:50 +0000

Big Red Car here. So, you don’t know what a MOOC is, do you? A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course and it is the promise of the Internet writ large. In this instance, Texas State University in San Marcos — just a few miles south of Austin — has made it possible to […]

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