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A tweet from @meepbopeep brought my attention to this report from NBC Nightly News: The story caught my attention for a few reasons: 1. It’s actually, in a way, old news. I’m aware of some small-town high schools in Alabama which have been using online/distance learning technologies for years, to help bring more challenging coursework to [...] 
From a Gawker.com story on nuclear researchers at Los Alamos accidentally blowing up a building: Although no one was hurt, a POGO source puts the damage at around $3 million. We’re going to say it: That was $3 million of taxpayer funds well-spent. Forget those stem cell thingies. Blow up a couple buildings every month and [...] 
Between travel and work I haven’t had much time to do much recreational reading or writing. But to clear out the inbox right quick, I give you: Chop Suey: Over in Europe, Business Insurance mentions that the increased capital requirements for insurers proposed under Solvency II standards could have the side effect of reducing capacity for [...] 
So, one of the political circuses this past week has been radio talk show hosts and the political blogosphere being all a-tizzy of which school districts will or won’t relay Obama’s speech to American schoolchildren tomorrow…or about those parents who may keep their children out of school to avoid exposure to the President’s indoctrination. The text [...]
Even after purging out topics which, while I was distracted with earning a paycheck, either burned out or were discussed to death elsewhere online, there are still enough items worthy of mentioning to merit a “chop suey” post: The Sun-Sentinel’s House Keys blog mentioned that Florida Insurance Commissioner McCarty has been making the rounds, touting how [...] 
Yesterday, when discussing local revaluation, I expressed concern about the probable nastiness arising from revaluation disruption hitting as state grants to towns dry up. It begins. Seen in the Courant: The state budget crisis edged closer to Connecticut’s classrooms Wednesday, when the state school board reluctantly endorsed more than $280 million in potential spending cuts next year.[…] The state [...]
I know that I’m not alone in occasionally seeing postings or want-ads looking to fill certain positions and thinking, “they require a college degree for that”? Charles Murray has taken that a step further with an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal (free link): Imagine that America had no system of post-secondary education, and you were [...]
Like last week’s post, this week’s topic is another on my list which I should have probably made a few notes on. Like crime last week, there are many potential education sub-topics I could write about….and I will once again resort to a bullet list. One of the more recent annoyances I’ve witnessed (admittedly [...]
Seen in the San Francisco Chronicle: A California appeals court ruling clamping down on homeschooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution.[...] [T]he appeals court said state law has been clear since at least 1953, when [...]
While waiting in a doctor’s office Monday, my wife showed me an article in Time that seems worth sharing (despite my decade-long annoyance with Time. It attempts to discuss the challenges the country faces in educating the brightest students: To some extent, complacency is built into the system. American schools spend more than $8 billion [...] |
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