Paying the Tuition, Only if You Get a Job

Can't find a job after you've graduated from a program that's designed to get you a job in the thing you are learning? You don't have to pay the tuition. It's kind of genius isn't it?

The Classes That We Were Forced to Take

In The Washington Post, a father argues that mandating that high school students take specific courses in order to graduate doesn't make a lot of sense if all they take away from the course is that they despise it, and don't retain any of the information they've learned/were asked to memorize.

A Swedish Lunch Controversy

Sweden is usually known as that neutral and super happy country people don't have any problems with, but they also have local controversies like this story about a lunch lady who cooks too many delicious vegetables for the school kids, which is obviously really, really unfair to the kids at the other schools who have regular vegetables.

Things to Do With $500 Billion

• Bring the nation's schools up a Bill Clinton-approved decent minimum standard.

The Rubber Room Still Exists

In 2008, This American Life did a story about New York City's "rubber room"—a place where teachers accused of wrongdoing go to wait disciplinary action.

Jobs for Coders! (If Only More People Knew How to Code)

"Our policy at Facebook is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find. There just aren't enough people who are trained and have these skills today." — Mark Zuckerberg

Modifying the Kids

It wasn't until after I graduated from college that I discovered that I had friends who secretly used Aderall to help them focus during midterms and final exams.