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The Davis school board recently decided to hold a meeting to consider adjusting the school year calendar, and may decide to begin school five to 10 days earlier. They should be lauded for at least thinking about this idea. Starting school a week or so earlier would cause the fall semester to end before winter […]
Davis’ downtown sidewalks are filthy and disgusting, particularly on E, F and G streets and Third Street. Is there anyone in the Davis Public Works Department (Streets Division) that can see to it that our sidewalks are cleaned, at the very least, once a year? I notice that there appears to be enough money for […]
Testing students daily would encourage them to complete homework nightly, and review what is being done on a nightly basis. I certainly think this would help students learn the material better, and doing this would most likely improve their final or midterm scores as well if the teacher decided to do both. This should definitely […]
I am writing in response to your article titled “Frequent tests can enhance college learning, study finds” that appeared on the front page on Friday. As a student myself, I think it sounds great to offer many small tests throughout the year instead of two to three large tests. All too often, my own teachers […]
The issue: Venezuela’s crackpot leader tries a screwball economic crackdown There seems to be no economic problem that Venezuela’s new president, Nicolas Maduro, can’t make worse. Maduro inherited from his predecessor, longtime strongman Hugo Chavez, a hazy, not to say incoherent, form of socialism called “Bolivarism,” that was slowly wrecking the economy of the oil-rich […]
By Paul Brady It is appropriate for Davis to have the Cool Davis Foundation to protest pipelines bringing Canadian and Bakken oil to Gulf refineries, which ship products around the world. Many also can feel good reading John Mott-Smith’s lengthy pieces such as that of Oct. 3: “The fierce urgency of now” to combat “the […]
