More on Haleh Esfandiari
The Iranian government’s actions are getting far uglier in the case of Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American scholar who was detained after visiting her elderly mother. See more by Manan Ahmed and Engage, as well as the Free Haleh site (sponsored by the American Islamic Congress).
Indulging in number-crunching on teacher flows
A friend and I have been batting some research on teacher demographics back and forth over a few years, and it’s my turn this month to do some number-crunching involving the Current Population Survey (CPS) and simulations of what would happen to those entering and leaving teaching assuming a stationery population (as if the numbers […]
Middle schools and getting students to be organized and do the work
As anyone who has taught or been a parent to someone in the middle grades knows, the most common apparent reason for student failure in grades 6-8 is not completing or turning in the work. (We’re not talking Aristotelian causes yet…) Joanne Jacobs links to a chain of opposing views on giving students incompletes: Laura/Huerter0, who describes […]
NASBE may have evolution opponent as leader
The National Association of State Boards of Education‘s upcoming election turns out to have one candidate now for president-elect: Kenneth R. Willard, who is part of the anti-evolution faction on the Kansas Board of Education. He’d take office in a few years, but I can’t imagine that this will do NASBE any good in terms […]
I hate discomfort’s side effects
By Sherman Dorn on May 19, 2007
Mild venting here: I have some moderate lower-back pain today. Yes, I’ve done the back exercises you’re supposed to do (do not lie down with ordinary muscle-related back pain if you can avoid it), and I’m sure it will go away in a day. But one consequence is that I have just a touch less […]
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