(Inside Higher Education) by Jim Jump.
What’s your favorite Steve Buscemi moment? It’s hard to top the wood chipper scene from Fargo, but I’m partial to his definition of irony from Con Air.
As a hijacked plane full of escaped convicts takes off with the convicts singing and dancing to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” Buscemi’s character wryly observes, “Define irony: a bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash.”
Recently the College Board issued a statement trumpeting the success of its collaboration with Khan Academy to provide free online practice for the new SAT. According to the statement, students who spend at least 20 hours on Khan Academy’s “Official SAT Practice” have an average score increase of 115 points, nearly double the increase of those who don’t use the Khan Academy program.
