but guess what? One-by-one, they’re all turning out to be true. Sigh.
So now the DOE is analyzing test scores on a teacher-by-teacher basis - but, learning nothing from Nixon or any other historical examples of cover-ups and dissimulations, they’re doing it all secretly!
And while the whole thing is being touted as an experiment, it’s easy to see [...]
Anyone know anything about this organization? What’s the word on the street?(Okay, five seconds of research reveals they originated the Teaching Fellows program and have since expanded beyond to provide a range of services and publications about urban recruitment and retainment of teachers… but I’m still interested in the word on the street.)
advertised at the top of my gmail, Botanical Paperworks, where you can buy stationery that the addressee can plant and it will grow into wildflowers with a little water and sunshine! I’m looking for postcards, which they don’t seem to have, but they do have invitations, wedding stationery, greeting cards, and plain paper.
Oh, and while I’m [...]
“Please back up your work…” At the moment He is whispering very loudly in the form of my computer claiming (bogusly, I think) that the “disk is full” and refusing to open documents, or, if I trick it into opening them, refusing to save them when I’m done with them. In general, I like my [...]
My friend’s house in San Francisco borders on Clarion Alley, a narrow passageway adorned with an ever-changing set of murals, like the one above. In the man’s silhouette, you can see almost exactly the view down the alley onto the next street.
The weekend was filled with amazing fresh food, good friends, new sights in [...]
I made a homemade psychrometer to try to figure out the humidity in the classroom. I got instructions here but wasn’t 100% sure of a few details so to try to get a little more data I used two different sets of thermometers. The results? Indeterminate. Each one gave me different readings. It was a little hard [...]
A friend wrote a piece for the Village Voice about a squash program that’s helping NYC kids get to prep schools:
He frets over how to maximize the benefits of the exchange between his nontraditional players and the old-school squash world. He doesn’t just want to bring urban kids to get whipped by kids who have been [...]
“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” -Albert Einstein
line break and paragraphing problems still unresolved (though, to be fair, I did not attempt to solve them), a couple dozen projects still ungraded, I am off to California for the weekend. I’d put flowers in my hair, except that I’d have to buy them because it is snowing out. No flowers. Can I just [...]
Weird problem with Firefox, can’t open it any more. Safari is seriously messing with things like my ability to use spaces and line breaks on this blog. HHHEEELLLLPPP!
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