By Chris Powell Hartford’s school superintendent, Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, says she’ll investigate the case of the girl who, the Connecticut Mirror reported a few weeks ago, graduated this year from Hartford Public High School without being able to read or write or do more than rudimentary addition and who then somehow was admitted to the University ofContinue reading “Case of illiterate Hartford girl should become a national scandal”
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Business executives warn Connecticut about too much higher education
By Chris Powell What a wonderfully subversive and politically incorrect idea has exploded from the committee set up by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities to study the problem of the state’s estimated 119,000 “disconnected” and alienated young people. Meeting this week at New London City Hall, the group heard a vice president of Yale NewContinue reading “Business executives warn Connecticut about too much higher education”
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