John Derbyshire at the Corner:
In my own days as a math undergraduate (old British system: no nonsense about majors and minors, we just did math) it was a running joke that when invited to the room of a female Humanities student, we’d browse her textbooks while she was making coffee; but when they came to [...]

Via commenter Andrew K on Longrider’s blog I find out about this guy. Step forwards Paul Chatterton – a man doing publicly funded leftist activism masquerading as research.
His projects (funded by British taxpayers money) include Autonomous Geographies:
“Autonomous Geographies was a two year action research project . . . . . funded by the Economic [...]

As promised.
Here is how you would deconstruct this Guardian article: The great shift in global power just hit high gear, sparked by a financial crash — Martin Jacques
The text in question predicts the rise of China and the decline of the USA in terms of global power.  Here’s how we deconstruct:

First take some of the [...]

I’ve just been reading about deconstruction and that worthless charlatan esteemed intellectual Jacques Derrida.
As far as I can ascertain, this is how you are supposed to deconstruct a text:

Take a bunch of concepts or things from the text.

For each thing, take its opposite.  There may be many possible choices of opposite but it is important [...]

Over at Civitas they’ve been addressing the issue of overexamination in schooling.  They approvingly quote Edmond Holmes who apparently was a school inspector 100 or so years ago.
In the older Universities, as in the great Public Schools, many valuable educative influences are at work outside the lecture-room… The “atmosphere” of Oxford and Cambridge does much [...]

Problem:
The examination system in the UK has the following problem:
Grade inflation makes it difficult for universities and employers to distinguish between good and very good students. Before the early 80s it was the case that about 10% of A-level papers would get grade As. Now this figure is about a quarter and even higher than a [...]