From the Rutland Herald’s Poultney superintendent departs amid feud: “The relationship between the Poultney School District and its superintendent is so frayed there’s a chance the state troopers might be called on to escort [her] from the town’s high school graduation ceremonies today.”
From Open Culture’s Teaching on YouTube: “I had decided that I wanted the course to primarily consider how web 2.0 (in this case, specifically YouTube) is radically altering the conditions of learning (what, where, when, how we have access to information). Given that college students are rarely asked to consider the meta-questions of how they [...]
From Bob Herbert’s Clueless in America: “Bill Gates offered a brutal critique of the nation’s high schools a few years ago, describing them as ‘obsolete’…Said Mr. Gates: ‘By obsolete, I don’t just mean that they are broken, flawed or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I [...]
From The Gynie Show’s My calculations are precise.: “My boss told me it’s not very nice to read a book while people are on break with me, he said they wanna talk and all I do is read. Not acceptable. I don’t get paid for my breaks. I sign out. But according to Brad, I [...]
There were a few things that interested me during last night’s debate, and if you can’t blog about what interests you, what else should you blog about?
First, there was the tone of the debate. Senators Obama and Clinton were civil to each other throughout the debate, and at times, they were downright friendly; but there [...]
From the Guardian’s Bob Slavin: Which? doctor: “This month Slavin starts as founding director of York’s £11m Institute for Effective Education (IEE). The idea is to try to take the politics out of education policy by providing the bottom line in research on what works and what doesn’t. “The issue of evidence-based reform is the [...]
From ABC News’ article, entitled Math: Gift from God or Work of Man?: “School begins again, and we read more about the intrusion of pseudoscience into school science curricula in this country…Although some of the creation scientists’ arguments presented have a probabilistic flavor, the mathematics curriculum has seemed somewhat resistant to this trend. Recently a [...]
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Hillary Clinton always comes prepared: “If Clinton wins the Democratic nomination (which is far from preordained), it will be as much because of the skills on display at Dartmouth Friday as any other factor. Clinton is relentless, never skimping on her homework, never taking her privileged position (by marriage) in the Democratic pantheon [...]
Where the Arts Were Too Liberal: “This is an obituary for a great American institution whose death was announced this week. After 155 years, Antioch College is closing.” [Editors comment: This was a sad week for progressive education. Traditional education is good for one thing: creating a workforce; progressive education, on the other hand, helps [...]
What Exactly is Montessori Education?: “On the 100th anniversary of the 1907 opening of Montessori’s first school—in the slums of Rome—5,000 schools devoted to her method dot the United States, with another 17,000 worldwide. Many are preschools, but some are for older kids as well….In many ways, Montessori education remains a cult: No one outside [...]
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perrennial Modern Classics) by Annie Dillard
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