More pure as the driven up the wall chart rankings
In commenting on the new U.S. News & World Report “best high schools” list and comparing it with Newsweek‘s (aka Jay Mathews’s), Alexander Russo says, The Newsweek list is more pure, focusing on the rigorous and more uniform Advanced Placement courses and tests. Never mind that AP courses evidently aren’t as uniform as one might […]
Wherein we excoriate Everyday Mathematics and also demonstrate the plausibility of letting secondary-grade students use calculators
As Joanne Jacobs notes (hat tip), some of the questions on the NYC-used and Texas-rejected Everyday Mathematics series are just absurd: if math were a color, a food, a type of weather, or a political party, … oh, wait. We have a mashup: if your political party were a color, what would it be? I’ve […]
Preparing for the Job Register
In honor of the American Historical Association blog’s entry on the AHA annual meeting job register, a list of activities that graduate students can use to prepare for the cavernous hall of intimate cabaret-style opportunities to spend a few minutes chatting with search committee members who haven’t told you that they have a raging headache […]
E-book versions of “Schools as Imagined Communities”
You can buy Schools as Imagined Communities as a Kindle e-book or through eBooks.com, with royalties going to non-profit organizations.
Florida DOE omits Patricia Polacco from holiday reading list
Missing from the state’s list of Recommended Holiday Reading: Patricia Polacco, whose The Trees of the Dancing Goats and Christmas Tapestry are her typical tear-jerking, wonderfully-illustrated fare. The Trees of the Dancing Goats is also available through the Florida Braille and Talking Books Libraries. I’m sure this is unrelated to the controversy over Polacco’s “disinvitation” […]