PalmTree Pundit hosts the Carnival of Homeschooling, which features several posts on teaching boys.
Archive for May, 2008
The family meal survives, says a survey by the Institute of Food Technologists.
The analysis found that last year, Americans ate a cooked meal at home five times a week, with just 20 percent of adults categorizing the proverbial family dinner as a “rare” occurrence.
Home cooking is declining, however.
The analysis found Americans are dining upon made-from-scratch […]
DePaul is investigating the student organizer of an affirmative action protest for “discriminatory harassment”, reports FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education). Conservative students had offered cake and cookies for $1 for white and Asian males, 75 cents for white and Asian females, down to 25 cents for black, Hispanic and Native American females. […]
Algebra is the reason most Los Angeles students drop out of school, reports the Los Angeles Times.
In the fall of 2004, 48,000 ninth-graders took beginning algebra; 44% flunked, nearly twice the failure rate as in English. Seventeen percent finished with Ds.
. . . Among those who repeated the class in the spring, nearly three-quarters flunked […]
California students will learn a little bit about India’s history. But whose version? The Christian Science Monitor reports:
In the halls of Sacramento, a special commission is rewriting Indian history: debating whether Aryan invaders conquered the subcontinent, whether Brahman priests had more rights than untouchables, and even whether ancient Indians ate beef.
In India, Hindu nationalists are […]
I’ll be reading and signing copies of my book, Our School, tonight at Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. in Corte Madera at 7 pm. Upcoming:
Feb. 7: Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park at 7:30 pm
Feb. 9: Barnes & Noble, 5353 Almaden Expressway in San Jose at 7:30 pm
Feb. 16: Media and Technology […]
A London school has banned students from raising their hands in class, reports The Telegraph.
“No hands up” notices have been posted in every room at the Jo Richardson comprehensive in Dagenham, east London, as a reminder that the teachers will decide who should answer.
The head, Andrew Buck, says it is always the same children […]
Ron Isaac, a New York City teacher, defends teachers’ unions against hostile journalists — he’s not a big fan of John Stossel — and suggests ways to co-opt the press.
In Reporters go back to school in the New York Post, Andrew Rotherham reviews my book, Our School, about a charter high school educating left-behind students and The Emergency Teacher by Christina Asquith, who left the Philadelphia Inquirer to spend a year teaching in a chaotic urban school.
Rotherham, better known to blog […]
In North Dakota, the University of Mary Marauders may switch to a milder name, says athletic director Al Bortke.
Bortke said a change was suggested by the school’s religion and philosophy department because of the negative image that goes with the Marauders name. He said Mary has changed its mascot over the years to make it […]
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