Tag Archives: education

Why Mrs. Bush is Wrong About No Child Left Behind (bad analogies part 2)

July 30, 2008 – 8:55 pm

In a USA Today article Mrs. Bush defended the No Child Left Behind act. Apparently she didn’t read my blog post about not using bad analogies. In the article she says, “We would never go to a doctor and say, ‘I’m sick, you can’t try to diagnose me … you can’t use any [...]

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Classroom Discipline, Some Teachers Should Learn Lessons Taught in 1947

July 22, 2007 – 11:24 am

I can’t remember how I came upon this video on YouTube, but I am glad I did. It is amazing to me that a film on Maintaining Classroom Discipline made in 1947 can still be relevant. While it is true that the solutions in the video simplify things to a degree and that the issues [...]

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Changes in Focus for Higher Education

March 17, 2007 – 5:55 pm

As a culture we are moving more and more towards commodifying everything. Some of these things make sense, others might not. Education and art are examples of things that should maybe shouldn’t be commodified.
Search employment postings for an admissions rep and see what you get (emphasis added):
ADMISSIONS REP
Are you aggressive? Motivated? Strong closer? Money [...]

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Open-Source is Good for Students (Paris gets it)

February 10, 2007 – 2:02 pm

This is news from last week, but it’s something worth thinking about. The Ile-de-France district in Paris is giving away 175,000 USB memory sticks load with open-source software to students. CNet reports:
The portable office will include the office software suite, an Internet browser, an e-mail client, an instant-messaging client, and audio [...]

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