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Register your students to vote in Florida, pay a fine
New Smyrna Beach teacher Jill Cicciarelli taught her students about more than civics this year when she helped a number of Volusia County high school students register to vote at the beginning of the year, as she had for a number of years. The lesson this year: if you help fellow citizens to vote, you […]
Jeb Bush, Distance Learning, and the Hype Cycle
Stephanie Mencimer’s article in the November/December Mother Jones, Jeb Bush’s Cyber Attack on Public Schools, strikes me as accepting far too much of Bush’s argument about the technical viability of online education. All of this deserves much more of the Gartner Hype Cycle approach, and while I think consultants with reports to sell should be […]
“Breaking with the past” as an old idea
In his interview with CNN this week, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said (in part), The new realities are technology has changed our lives forever, the world’s moving faster, we’re in a globalized economy … and yet the institutions, mostly public, that we’ve asked to be able to equip us have been mired in the […]
My dangerous colleagues in anthropology
My eternal thanks go to Florida Governor Rick Scott, without whom I would never have known that the 0.8% of Florida state university system graduates who major in anthropology ((In the last 10 years reported, through 2009-2010, there were 446,733 BAs awarded by all SUS institutions, of whom 3,395 or 0.8% majored in anthropology. Source: […]
Students want to be safe, and that’s a good thing
News broke today of a Tampa teenager arrested for plotting to detonate explosives at a local high school. The Tampa police chief said only that a tip came from “someone familiar with [defendant Jared] Cano’s plot,” and often that comes from family members or peers. If it turns out the tip came from a peer, this […]