From the Sacramento Bee: Stay in school, ride in a tank:
(California) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new rewards program for schoolkids: Stay in school, take a tank for a spin.
The Republican governor is bringing home an Austrian army tank he loaned the Motts Military Museum in Columbus, Ohio, and he said Wednesday he plans to […]
Archive for May, 2008
Technology is enabling some autistic people to communicate and forcing scientists to reconsider what they think they know about autism, writes Wired.
The YouTube clip opens with a woman facing away from the camera, rocking back and forth, flapping her hands awkwardly, and emitting an eerie hum. She then performs strange repetitive behaviors: slapping a […]
A plan by California Democrats to unionize family members who get paid by the state to care for their relatives’ children would hurt the poor, writes Daniel Weintraub in the Sacramento Bee. Some providers would make more; others would make nothing since the state’s day care subsidies would cover fewer children.
The child care providers […]
I’d like to thank my guest bloggers, Kimberly Swygert and Ben Cunningham, for filling in for me while I was on vacation. They did so well that readership went up, which did dent my ego a bit.
Costa Rica was beautiful. I now know about leaf-carrying ants, blue herons, snowy egrets, quetzals, toucans and the […]
Daily Yomiuri HT: Textually
“Cell phones are suitable for language learning because they allow people to study for as little as five or 10 minutes,” Yang said. “The phone system will probably be used for homework or tests.”
The learning system also allows teachers to check the progress of their students. It is being promoted by WEIC […]
A Tennessee legislator is trying to pass a bill requiring state testing of home school and private school students. The first hearing was yesterday and home school mom Kay Brooks has all the info on her blog.
Check out this week’s Carnival of Education at the Sam Jackson College Experience, a new host.
At Teacher Et Cetera, Ms. Ward says her students think school isn’t teaching poetry; it’s “killing poetry.” Not to mention literature in general.
The conversation changed directions when one student raised her hand and timidly suggested that school killed […]
My Social Justice High column is up at Pajamas Media.
AP Ipsos Canada
The time that is spent by teens online is actually rather limited, with 12 to 17 year olds spending, on average, only 13 hours per week on the Internet (compared to a weekly average of 19 hours for online adults), and that number has not increased since Ipsos last measured online teen behaviour […]
File this under the “Kids today have it made” category:
Schools and universities are often big fans of Apple products, which usually translates to labs and laptop carts full of Macs. Educational institutions across the country have also started to provide students with personal laptops. Louisiana recently launched a program to distribute MacBooks to elementary […]
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