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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Obama Says Yes To Sex Ed for Kindergartners |
| Published: July 18, 2007, 8:43 pm |
| Tags: Education |
| Planned Parenthood that sex education for kindergartners is "the right thing to do" as long as it is "age-appropriate." Oh yeah? And who gets to decide what is "age-appropriate?" Will kids be expected to learn about homosexuality and transgenderism too? After all, what's stopping the school from using some student's parents being homosexuals, or |
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| Carnival of Education |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 5:38 pm |
| Tags: Carnival Of Education |
| This week's is here, and includes my post on cheating at an Oakland charter school. |
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| It's About Darn Time |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 10:12 pm |
| Tags: Liberals Lefties, Higher Education, Free Speech |
| Ward Churchill has been fired from the the University of Colorado. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.I don't think he should have been fired for his 9-11 "little Eichmanns" comment, although he's earned any and all social opprobrium that comes with such a vile exercise of free speech. No, he was correctly fired for faking his credentials and |
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| Cheating At A Charter |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 12:56 pm |
| Tags: K 12 Issues, Higher Education |
| This isn't an anti-charter school post, as I'm a big fan of charter schools. I'm not a big fan of cheating and fraud, however, and when one of the good guys commits cheating and fraud, I call them on it.In spring 2006, teachers' records for an 11th-grade boy at University Preparatory Charter Academy in East Oakland showed an F and five D's.His |
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| Protecting your kids on the Net |
| Published: July 13, 2007, 12:49 pm |
| Tags: Education |
| My 4 year-old son is showing signs that he'll be just like me and his dad. Although he hasn't started surfing the Net yet, he already knows how to log-in and go to his favorite site (Lego). He's been doing... Continue. |
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| Why are terrorists so dumb? |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 2:48 pm |
| Tags: Islam, Jihad, Europe, Education |
| more than a high-school education doubles the chance of escaping capture, for example. If the terrorists in this case do turn out to be the doctors and other professionals who are, as I write, suspected of the crime, it would demonstrate that even years of education and experience do not guarantee a successful attack. Blowing up innocent |
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| Religious education |
| Published: July 20, 2007, 2:14 pm |
| Tags: Education |
| As schools across Britain break out for the long summer, Ofsted have told the Government that History teaching needs to be more chronological taking into account the religious and cultural uproar around "one damn thing after another". So what does the National Curriculum teach at the moment? Well at 11 children should spend 10-15 |
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| Harmony in Flux |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 12:05 pm |
| Tags: Criminal Justice, Education, Sexual Ethics, Trends |
| Over at Reason's Hit & Run, the Agitator, Radley Balko, proclaims "Childhood Now A Sex Crime." What? From The Oregonian: The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran -- what some kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is against |
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| Danica McKellar exclusive for Scienceblogs [A Blog Around The Clock] |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 3:40 pm |
| Tags: Science Education |
| Tara of Aetiology, after reviewing Danica McKellar's book "Math Doesn't Suck", posted an exclusive blog interview with Danica, which you can (and should) read here. Read the comments on this post... |
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| Group Objects to Words of Foreign Origin in National Spelling Bee |
| Published: June 2, 2006, 6:00 am |
| Tags: Education, Entertainment, Family, Games, Television |
| During this year's national spell-off, contestants were forced to puzzle out words of Spanish, Greek, Latin American, homosexual, even French origin. Now some native-born bee watchers say they've had enough. If they get their way, spelling bees from elementary schools to the nation's capital will soon be conducted in English only. 75% of |
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| Home-Schooler Misspells 'Friend' in National Spelling Bee |
| Published: May 31, 2006, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Education, Entertainment, Family, Games, Religion, Sports, Television |
| from public affairs and education). Derek said that he's still kicking himself for misspelling a word that he hears his parents use so frequently. "It's one of those bad words, almost like a cuss word. I think that's why I messed it up." Can you spell 'drrty'? Not all of the 34 home-schoolers participating in this year's |
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| Math: It's Good For You [Uncertain Principles] |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:18 am |
| Tags: Education |
| That's the conclusion of a new study from Harvard and the University of Virginia, anyway: Researchers at Harvard University and the University of Virginia have found that high school coursework in one of the sciences generally does not predict better college performance in other scientific disciplines. But there's one notable exception: Students |
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| Research Shows Hand Movements Aid Learning Mathematics |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 3:33 pm |
| Tags: Education, Research, Mathematics, Science |
| Mad Professah was alerted to this interesting article about the impact that using hand gestures during the teaching of mathematics. Post-doctoral fellow Susan Wagner Cook at the University of Rochester has published an article in the latest issue of Cognition which indicates that students who use hand gestures while doing math are three times more |
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| The Algebra Project on PBS Tonight |
| Published: July 13, 2007, 4:29 pm |
| Tags: Education, Academia, Public Policy, Mathematics, Algebra, Television, Social Justice |
| The public television show Now will be airing a segment tonight on The Algebra Project, a non-profit group who is trying to improve the teaching of elementary and high school algebra in low-income and minority schools throughout America. Mad Professah met the founder of the group, Bob Moses, at a Math and Social Justice conference in Brooklyn, NY |
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| In a blog all their own |
| Published: September 12, 2006, 6:06 pm |
| Tags: Blogosphere, Education |
| Q. How many Ivy League students does it take to read a blog that focuses solely on the Ivy League? A. If you are the upstart IvyGateblog.com, hopefully all of them. According to the site, IvyGate covers news, gossip, sex,... |
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