Florida teachers shouldn’t have the right to teach “intelligent design” as an alternative to evolution, writes Education Gadfly. The proposed “Academic Freedom Act” would let teachers “objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views” of evolution. Advocates believe “intelligent design” is a scientific view. Gadfly writes:
The “Academic Freedom Act” is an [...]
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In reading about a “pain compliance” scheme to control airborne terrorists, Darren sees a way to solve all discipline problems in school — and make teachers’ jobs more fun: Shock collars on students.
I’ve often joked that students should wear electric shock collars at school. Teachers (or perhaps just a couple of us) would carry around [...]
An anti-gossip campaign at Jewish high schools is trying to get teenagers to think before they say something hurtful about a classmate. In Jewish tradition, speaking evil about others is nearly as bad as doing evil. From the New York Times:
. . . at 11:15 each morning at the Stella K. Abraham High School for [...]
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is letting some states differentiate consequences of missing No Child Left Behind targets. That’s not what the law says, but nobody is objecting, writes Kevin Carey. He predicts NCLB won’t be reauthorized till 2010 and wonders what will happen if future education secretaries continue to revise problem areas in the [...]
Be prepared for a shock, warns John Rosenberg at Discriminations: Elite colleges are admitting students with very high SAT scores! According to a paper presented at the American Education Research Association convention, “highly desired, highly selective elite colleges actually strive to enroll the brightest students and that as a result the proportion of their [...]
U.S. schools need to be improved, but not because Asian students are about to clean our clock, writes Liam Julian on Education Gadfly. He contrasts the documentary Two Million Minutes, which follows hard-working Indian and Chinese students and less-studious American students, with the New York Times story on India’s dreadful public schools. The [...]
Education Sector has five ideas for expanding and improving charter schools.
Trading charter school caps for more rapid expansion of proven charter schools.
Trading the high test scores from some charter schools for space for charter schools to operate.
Linking transitional aid for public schools to access to facilities for charter schools.
Joining the effort to improve school finance [...]
At the start of the school year, one of Darren’s math students talked about test anxiety. Darren was impressed that the student asked how to improve.
I love it when students ask how they might improve, instead of how I might enable whatever condition they think they possess.
I gave him a couple of pointers. [...]
Sweet Juniper’s photos show the ruins of the Detroit Public Schools Book Depository.
This is a building where our deeply-troubled public school system once stored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from it all, allowing everything to go to waste. The interior has been ravaged by fires and the supplies that haven’t [...]
Gifted students in rural Arkansas with a long bus commute are taking advanced classes on the bus thanks to wi-fi, reports U.S. News, via Constrained Vision.
My stepson commutes on a wi-fi-enabled Google bus from San Francisco to the Mountain View office. Why wait to start work?
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