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Resources for new teachers, change provocateurs
New teachers, especially teachers from alternative certification programs, have all sorts of stories about people who observe and supervise their training and work. There is the guy whose district...
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Japanese-American internment: Statesman-Journal web special
Looking for good sources on Japanese internment? Editor & Publisher highlights the web version of a special series on Japanese internment during World War II, put together by the Statesman-Journal...
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Ardeatine Massacre: Bombers were soldiers, not terrorists
Our Italian physicist friend, Dorigo, at A Quantum Diaries Survivor reports that an Italian court ruled against a newspaper that started a campaign to deny the history of the Ardeatine Massacre. Good...
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Jefferson, economics and history
Jefferson dollars will be unveiled today in a ceremony at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. They officially go into circulation tomorrow, August 16, 2007. Jefferson dollars are the third in a...
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More Latin you should know
Oh, I admit it. Sometimes I troll the blogosphere looking for provocation. And sometimes my trolling nets turn up good stuff. At Joe Carter’s Evangelical Outpost, I found a link to “Latin You Should...
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Constitution Day, September 17
Get ready. Constitution Day is September 17, 2007. It’s the anniversary of the day in 1787 when 39 men signed their names to the proposed Constitution of the United States of America, to send it off to...
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Snuffing out math talent
Could I cover one block of math? Family emergency, the teacher had to go, math practice assignment was all duplicated, I didn’t have a class at that time . . . Sure. It was a class for kids generally...
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Waco Tribune gets it: Science is golden
The Waco Tribune offered its editorial support to science, and evolution theory, today. Texas education officials should be wary of efforts to insert faith-based religious beliefs into science...
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Creationists make stealth bid to takeover Texas education board
Sane members of the Texas State Board of Education hold a slim majority over scripture-at-any-cost-in-science-books creationists. Creationists are hammering away to defeat at least two incumbent board...
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Texas education board turns authoritarian
Nobody can recall the ceremony, but Don McLeroy made it clear yesterday that he thinks he’s been designated Kommissar of Education, ramming through a proposal altering English standards for the next...
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More on McLeroy’s war on Texas English students
The Houston Chronicle’s coverage of the Texas State Board of Education meetings this week is not well indexed on the web. Following a couple of odd links I found Gary Sharrar’s article (he’s the...
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Opening day of testing season: The hunt is on! Wear orange
We stopped education in Texas high schools yesterday to test students’ proficiency with the English language. English is a difficult enough subject that it merits its own testing day, so as not to...
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Insanity at Texas state school board – economics, geography and history
Texas Freedom Network’s Insider blog reports that embattled chairman Don McLeroy is working to create a panel of experts to review studies curricula. The experts he has proposed so far are all...
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46 states agree to work for common education standards — Texas left out
(This issue has moved a bit since I first drafted this post — watch for updates.) Ain’t it the way? 46 of the 50 states agreed to work for common education standards through a project of the National...
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SBOE shames Texas, part G: Toles in the Washington Post
Pulitzer Prize-winner Tom Toles in the Washington Post, March 19, 2010 It’s pretty embarrassing when the State Board of Education’s actions leave Texas open to jokes about whether Texans remember the...
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SBOE dare not say his name: “Obama”
What? The Texas State Board of Education is doing such a shoddy job of writing social studies standards that they don’t even name the current president of the U.S.? It’s a cautionary tale of...
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Especially Texans: Please stand up for high-quality, non-political education
I get e-mail, this time from the Texas Freedom Network: The State Board of Education meeting is next week, and we need YOU to make a difference. “Am I a religious fanatic? Absolutely. You’d have to be...
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Sputnik – part of the series, “Cold War”
BBC’s 24-part series on the Cold War included an entire segment on Sputnik. Kenneth Branagh narrated this episode. Sarah Palin, you can start your education here. On YouTube, it’s broken up into five...
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Test “priming”: Malcolm Gladwell on how to push test results, and why tests...
Who is the interviewer, Allan Gregg? From the YouTube site: Malcolm Gladwell in an interview about Blink explains priming, and re-states some of the examples of priming from Blink with CC (closed...
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Holding teachers accountable, in reality
Scott McLeod at Dangerously!Irrelevant put together a video, with computer voices to protect the innocent naive genuinely ignorant and proudly stupid. Teachers who watch this may cry as they watch...
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