The discussion glow
I left the classroom for a few minutes this evening, after telling students to arrange themselves in small groups, making sure that each group had at least one member who had read each of the two books I had assigned the class (half to Gilberto Conchas’s The Color of Success and half to David Tyack’s […]
NCLB identifies wrong target for students with disabilities
Erin Dillon’s short piece yesterday, Labeled: The Students Behind NCLB’s ‘Disabilities’ Designation, is a response to criticism of NCLB as unrealistic about the achievement of students with disabilities. Dillon argues that because approximately half of students with disabilities are identified as having learning disabilities, and because of the overrepresentation of minorities in special education, the critics […]
Tufte-d morning
I was lazy this morning and exercised by jogging in place on an exercise mat, browsing/read through Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence. While Tufte’s idea of sparklines (in chapter 2) is appealing, I am not nearly as impressed by this book as by his other volumes, espcially Visual Explanations. I am not yet sure why. Then […]