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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