Long-term question on RTTT: Teacher evaluations
…a widgetized evaluation system is no better and in many ways much worse than a widgetized salary system…
Prince George’s County insults its AP teachers
This is just a brief note: according to Ken Bernstein, a high school AP government teacher in Prince George's County, Maryland, the county administration decided arbitrarily to change the weighting of grades for AP classes away from assignments and tests to class participation… without telling the teachers until after they had printed and distributed syllabi. […]
Another unquantified, undocumented thumbnail history of youth
Even if some traditional milestones are never reached, one thing is clear: Getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever. via What Is It About 20-Somethings? – NYTimes.com And then, while writing a long article about this supposedly new "emerging adulthood" stage of life, freelance science reporter Robin Marantz Henig […]
Opportunistic employment filtering
The press reaction to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce report Help Wanted was muted (and one could even say the press ignored it after a day or two in mid-June), but the Pope Center's George Leef took a crack at the economic analysis and a crack at the policy implications more recently. Leef's […]
iSRS, iPad flashcard app–yes, useful
I've been playing around with an iPad app that's very similar to Mnemosyne. iSRS is available in an iPhone/iPod version for free or premium, with a premium iPad version ($4.99). There's a program to synchronize "card" sets with a Mac or Windows computer. Primary use I can imagine? Learning my students' names!