It was 20 years ago today, Green’s theorem began to play… (oh, how WRONG)
I don’t do paid work or shop on legal holdidays. (Today, I did a bit of civic duty and a bit of personal stuff.) Or I try not to. This story is of how my effort not to work on MLK day has succeeded, but also failed. Not today, quite, but around 20 years ago, […]
Turn anything into a lesson, but will it stick?
A friend of mine has done something unusual with the celebrations of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday this year. She teaches young adolescents with moderate cognitive disabilities and behavior problems, and this year, she chose King’s 1964 Nobel Prize acceptance speech as the basis for a series of lessons in reading, language arts, civics, etc. […]
Where does effective reform come from?
Thursday, Andy Rotherham challenged historians of education: [H]ere’s a question for the historians that might help explain why education does careen from one thing to the next. What are the most compelling examples of where the education system has reformed itself in ways that have demonstrably benefited students? Haven’t most of the reforms, for good […]
If it’s Friday, I must be in Orlando
Interesting day, almost by definition, with equal dashes of intrigue, frustration, possibility, and sheer chaos. I’m in a cafe right now, waiting for this afternoon’s external advisory meeting on the state’s assessment/accountability system. We’re going to be talking with representatives of the Buros Center on Testing, and their reports for the state provide plenty of […]
More from Bill Foster against evolution
Former St Petersburg city council member Bill Foster, last seen making silly claims about how Darwin caused the Holocaust, is at it again. Among other things, he writes, “What is also undeniable is that there is growing dissent in the scientific community.” Er, um, no. Evolution is accepted as a theory that is perfectly consistent […]