articles by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero about education
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10, 2013
Whatever Happened to Logic?
Once upon a time, logic was held in high regard. Most educated people were acquainted with its basic principles and [...]
2
10, 2013
Education Is Failing? What Else Is New?
It’s all over the news. Between 57% and 61% of high school graduates have little chance of succeeding in college. [...]
4
09, 2013
A Tale Of Two Students
Carson Huey graduated from high school with a perfect 4.0 grade point average and a 1770 Scholastic Aptitude Test score. [...]
12
06, 2013
A More Dangerous Corruption
“Corruption” is a popular word today, and it is usually used to denote dishonest behavior within an institution. The most [...]
15
05, 2013
More Language Peeves
It must have happened during one of those moments when I wasn’t looking, but there’s no question that it did [...]
8
05, 2013
Language Peeves
The TV news person was commenting about a story concerning the Boston Marathon bombing when she said, “The story just [...]
22
04, 2013
Let’s Stop Clinging To Nonsense
In April of 2013, Tulane professor and talk-show host Melissa Harris-Perry, made the following remark on camera: We have never invested [...]
21
02, 2013
Minding Your Pronouns
It was the early 1990s and I had just finished a lecture to a group of educators on the teaching [...]
6
09, 2012
A Sensible Approach To Voting
It’s not hard to imagine the following conversation. Bill: I’m voting the same way I did in 2008, for Obama [...]
29
08, 2012
Common Sense About Abortion
It’s election season again and abortion defenders are casting the usual aspersions, which may be summarized as, conservatives are anti-choice extremists [...]