Trouble With The University of California
“[T]he University of California is now being slowly dismantled, and its mission of public education perverted, thanks to the budget cuts it has had to absorb over the last few years. My friend and...
View ArticleGood Thing I Never Finished School
“Every semester, just as the big end-of-term assignments come around, the grandparents start dropping like flies.” Filed under: Short Tagged: death, education
View ArticleNo Man Born Of Woman
“There are many questions a school should ask parents of new students during the enrollment process — age, previous schools, proof of identity and residency, vaginal delivery or C-section — wait… what...
View ArticleTasty Math?
boingboing has a link to a story about a teacher who uses chocolate to teach calculus. It sounds interesting, but I don’t think it would have helped me, back when I was struggling with math. I would...
View ArticleComputer Education!
It is my understanding that not everyone out there understands, or is comfortable with using personal computers. At last, there is some one to help you! Thank you, Billy Van! Filed under: Short...
View ArticleUnquestionable
“New York educators banned references to ‘dinosaurs,’ ‘birthdays,’ ‘Halloween’ and dozens of other topics on city-issued tests. That is because they fear such topics ‘could evoke unpleasant emotions in...
View ArticleUC Sez: Avoid All Protests
“Now that the university that has gone into the business of suppressing peaceful assemblies — the Davis campus in particular, a center of agribusiness research, has become synonymous worldwide with one...
View ArticleOther Minds and Lives
5 Things Your Dissertation Director Wishes You Knew – Brainstorm – The Chronicle of Higher Education. If you know anything about me, you might think that the above-linked article wouldn’t interest me....
View ArticleComparison of Learning Methods
“A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest has evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.”...
View ArticleSchool: still no fun if you’re broke
Actually, most college students aren’t hooking up as much as you think – Boing Boing. Well, maybe I don’t feel so bad about dropping out of college now. I mean except for the poorer career prospects,...
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