Have you ever been somewhere and people are talking about something and there is one bumpkin who doesn’t have a clue what the others are talking about? People sort of feel that person is a bit of an idiot. [...]
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Here’s how it works (and I wish to God someone had filled me in on this when I was young): To beat them at their own game, you must rebel by excelling. Don’t hurt yourself by being a loser. Hurt them by being a winner. Then stick it to them. [...] I’ve been taking notes for a book I’d like to write, about a “hard-boiled substitute teacher” named Joe Archimedes. It’s been amusing me for years. So it looks like I may have to actually write the thing. I’ve been considering writing it as a blog, and turning it into a “blook” (a book that was [...] I read an interesting post by a student writing for his school newspaper, today. It prompted all kinds of thoughts. The post inspired me to write a long comment to it, which you can also read at the above page (if you’re bored). Combined with having watched the great Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot” [...] The controversy rages about the Bush administration’s NCLB (the chillingly misnamed “No Child Left Behind” act). I believe that this travesty of a boondoggle (the only people who benefit are the testing companies) has the potential to destroy what is left of American public education. [...] Hey, you droogs, There was an interesting post on the Whallah! blog about an article in the Associated Press, concerning the education of math teachers in public schools. Apparently the National Council on Teacher Quality has done a comprehensive study to come to the conclusion that everyone who is not an “expert” has known for years: [...] I am listening, for the second time today, to Jonathan Kozol’s absolutely brilliant speech on Alternative Radio on National Public Radio (NPR). If you care about education in America at all, you should know about the work of this exceptional man. The thrust of the speech is that apartheid is more alive and well [...] “Why do I need to know fractions? Square roots? Algebra or geometry? I mean, why do we ever even need them in real life? I am never going to be a mathematician, and I hate math. So why do I have to learn this?” [...] …if you have, say, 1/4 of a apple blueberry crumble pie (you can tell where my mind is this balmy upstate Memorial day), and you have 1/5 of another apple blueberry crumble pie, how much apple blueberry crumble pie do you have altogether? [...] Which is greater, x2*y2 or x2+y2? I am thinking about an example from a GRE (graduate record exam) book that was shown to me. I think it was "Which is greater, x2+y2 or (x+y)2? Here is the poop on how to think about examples like that. When in doubt – substitute (if you can) for [...] |
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