Cnn.com has revamped its site, including a shakeup of its front-page news categories. “Education” has traditionally had its own spot, usually–this being America–near the bottom under Celebrity News, but still on par with Science, Health, etc.
Well, no more. Education has been nixed as stand-alone category and has been replaced by “Funny News.” As of this writing, 2:20 PM EDT, the two stories in this new category are:
“Stealing Another Man’s Wife Costs $4,802”
and
“Larry the Cable Guy Gets Own Beer”
As a wise man once said, it’s not that you can’t make this stuff up, it’s that you wish you had to.
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman's False Fronts paper is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on Federal Family Education Loan defaults on The Huffington Post.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.