When Stewart announced a few weeks ago that he would be holding a Rally to Restore Sanity on the National Mall, it seemed to me that the goals of the student loan reform movement dovetailed nicely with that message since what we're really hoping to achieve is the restoration of a modicum of sanity to the student lending industry.
Two new studies make the case that do-or-die exams -- which decide whether students graduate, teachers are dismissed or schools are shut in more than half the states in the nation -- have brought about at least a modicum of academic progress, especially for minority students who may get scant attention otherwise.
With U.S. colleges enthralled by the prospect of full-tuition international students, and a range of businesses willing to falsify applications for students, admission is easier than ever for rich Chinese students with decent academics and some modicum of English.
Just a heads up in the syllabus, presumably – as my colleague Lindy West put it – to treat students, especially those from marginalized communities, with a modicum of "respect and humanity".
But one reason for that was the cancellation of the high school exit exam, which used to be required for graduation and which students could pass only if they had attained a modicum of understanding of algebra and English skills.
Little did I know, this pseudo-identity crisis I faced as a child would give me a modicum of an insider perspective into the lives of the many interfaith college students I would work with twenty years later.
He'd tried YouTube, but it required a modicum of technical expertise, as well as sincerity and a crusading mind-set; if YouTube was for student-council types who wanted everyone to divest from Sodastream, Vine was the sniggering truant who gave you a noogie as he raced by.
Establishing that modicum of trust took years.
A modicum of people like it.
There is a modicum of control.
