Recent items:

• items in the Wilmington News Journal, 3/5/05
  • Schools pressured to meet business demands
  • Standard curriculum called prescription for failure
  • Christina plans school for struggling
• related stories:
  • Christiana's "Networks School for the Entrepreneurial Sciences" (2/26/05)
  • Junior Achievement's Enterprise Village in Wilmington (3/6/05)

Bill Gates: US High Schools "Obsolete"

On p. A5 of the March 5 edition, the News Journal also ran a brief item with two excerpts from a speech by Bill Gates, under the headline: "GATES DISPARAGES PUBLIC EDUCATION."
   It should be noted that Gates was not criticizing "Public Education" per se, as Perelman or the voucher advocates would do. More info can be found through these links:

Church-State separation (this topic is more related to our class for March 17)

The March 5 edition's Opinion Page had this column by Rita Truschel, one of the News Journal's own in-house editorial writers:

• Truschel: An object lesson in religious faith
  This is really more related to our topics for March 17; but her reference to "the medium of inscribed granite" is nice for our consideration of differences among media.

Also on Church-State issues in the news this past week:

• Division of Church, State At High Court
  Ten Commandments Displays On Government Land at Issue

• Associated Press: Some major church-state cases