No motivation
I’m reading final papers from one class and waiting for the other class to upload final exam answers today to the university’s portal. But I have a family trip to plan and purchase for, errands to run, house things to arrange, and bills to pay, so I have plenty of grading to do and no […]
Social policy and history
And here’s what you get with the failure to know a bit of social history: “You didn’t have a massive immigration of people who were retaining allegiance to another nation and maybe coming here temporarily and then going back,” [Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence Director John] Eastman said. “In 1868, you didn’t make that trip across […]
Punished for speaking your home language
A 16-year-old who speaks English also speaks his parents’ language and is suspended from school for speaking his home language in the hallway, not in class. A nightmare from the early 20th century? No. Today’s Kansas City-area schools. Fortunately, the superintendent of the district rescinded the punishment, but civil-rights advocates are still fuming, and rightly […]
Exam time
For your information, here is the bonus question on my students’ final assignment this semester: According to the most recent Gallup poll of opinions about public schools, a majority of those polled thought that students or their parents were largely responsible for students’ achievement, but a majority also thought that schools were responsible for closing […]
Al-Arian trial end
Along with other bloggers, I’ll say a few words about the end of the (first) trial of Sami Al-Arian and his co-defendants after the jump.