Professor Plum rants about busting up an education professors’ teleconference by asking for evidence: “Do you have any data showing that portfolio assessment results in better judgments of teacher quality than the judgment of a principal and mentor who see a new teacher all year?”
Afterwards, four or five of my collards accosted me and […]
Archive for May, 2008
Now that I’ve figured out how to block spam comments, a robot has put hundreds of pornographic trackback links on old posts. I keep deleting them, but it’s laborious. Does anyone know how to deal with this? I’m not putting trackback on new posts, but it takes forever to remove it from old […]
A part-time instructor at Fort Lewis College in Colorado kicked the leg of a student wearing a College Republicans sweat shirt at an off-campus restaurant. According to student Mark O’Donnell, his assailant, Maria Spero, then said “she should have kicked me harder and higher.”
Spero, a visiting instructor of modern languages, apologized to O’Donnell […]
In Germany, fathers in a religious community were jailed for refusing to send their children to public school.
Twelve Tribes members believe in homeschooling their children to impart their religious values.
Acing the SATs is not like winning the loterry, despite this story on fraternal twins who both earned 1600 on the SATs.
It seems like the kind of SAT question custom-made for Dillon and Jesse Smith of Long Beach: If one out of every 1,511 students taking the SAT will get a perfect score, what are […]
I’ve added Education at the Brink, a blog by an Austin teacher, to the blogroll — even though it quotes Alfie Kohn.
It seems like a bare minimum: Indiana is considering requiring public universities to require applicants to take core academic courses.
A blue-ribbon panel is pushing Indiana universities to require applicants to complete the stateÕs college-preparatory curriculum in order to win admission and financial aid.
Eventually, the Education Roundtable wants to make the “Core 40″ curriculum […]
Here’s an apocalyptic analysis of No Child Left Behind, linked from Gadfly.
College is stressful, says a New York Times story on the rising demand for mental health services on campus. Highered Intelligence, back to edblogging, mocks.
Kids need to suck it up and deal. Their parents need to raise them to face difficulties with maturity, grace, and honor. Hey … that’s a really nice […]
On NPR’s All Things Considered, Barbara Feinberg talks about her book, Welcome to Lizard Motel, which argues for children’s stories that rely on imagination and fantasy. Feinberg’s son, an avid reader, hated school-assigned “problem” books that feature adolescents coping with abuse, dying parents, kidnapping, alcoholism, etc.
Pre-adolescents, these novels seem to suggest, ought to […]
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