Family myths, redux
Judith Warner’s column Kids Gone Wild in tomorrow’s NY Times is another complaint about the decline of the American family, this time dressed up as concerns about declining parenting. She briefly acknowledges that children have always been seen as unruly and then blithely ignores what she wrote. If children were somehow unruly both before this […]
Paraphrasing self-test
After looking for a way to help students test their paraphrasing skills, I’ve modified what real programmers have done to create a test-your-skills-at-paraphrasing page (and the links to the folks who really deserve credit are at the bottom of it). It won’t cover errors such as borrowing metaphors, but it should give a reality check […]
News & stuff
A small spate of ed news, from another piece by Jay Mathews on AP classes (the guy’s persistent!) to Mathews’ discussion of parental involvement vs. academic focus in a study on California API results (whoever thinks that the API is a decent measure? Hmmph), the NY Times on state test v. NAEP threholds for different […]
Googling plagiarism
One of the perversities of Google is this: If you search for sites on plagiarism, two of the five ads on the right side (at least today) link to web sites that sell papers to students.
Talking to faculty
From Mel at In Favor of Thinking comes a link to How to talk to a professor. Generally quite useful. Too bad only a small handful of my students come to my office hours, and generally because of course concerns. Do I look like I have fangs?