Posts Tagged ‘education’

If this answering machine message is real, it's real, it's amazing, if it's fake, that's too bad...

Subject: Actual message on School Answering Machine in Australia
This is the message that the Maroochydore High School, Queensland, Australia, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the [...]

It's no surprise to many of us who grew up playing the things that the whole claim our parents and other authority figures during our youth used to make about video games rotting our brains has turned out to be pretty much an easily debunked myth. However, for hose holdouts - and grandparents - who [...]

I'm not going to outright advocate what this principal and assistant principal allegedly did, but I have to say that I totally understand why they might have altered their students' standardized test scores. One of my recurring nightmares over the last few years, coming in right behind dating and sleepovers, is how I'm going to [...]

Publisher W.W. Norton has started a program for schools called Chapter Select e-Books, which allows teachers/profs to create customized online textbooks for their students.
I fail to see how this isn't the direction in which pretty much all academic publishing will go eventually, right? With students of every grade carrying around affordable wireless-capable e-readers or [...]

As if we all needed another reason to detest the risible No Child Left Behind Act -- apparently the $6 billion Reading First program, mandated under the NCLB, is a total bust.
"It is a program that needs to be improved," said Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, director of the Institute of Education Sciences, the department's [...]