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!
Not exactly covered with glory in L.A.
The big K-12 story this week is the L.A. Times series on value-added measures of intermediate and middle-school teachers in reading and math in the Los Angeles Unified School District. My brief impression: I don't think anyone in L.A. is covering themselves in glory this week. Folks such as Alexander Russo and Rick Hess have […]
Alternative “mindset” list
There's been the usual annual attention paid this week to the Beloit College "Mindset" list of semi-cute perspectives on generational change. I've been thinking about more realistic ones they never mention: Thurgood Marshall died before they could walk. They can't remember when Aid to Dependent Children was a national guarantee Hillary Clinton has always had […]