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Tagging Kids
The concept of electronically tracking prisoners on release programs has been around for a while. So, why not do the same with truant students? Jaime used to snooze until 2 p.m. before strolling into school. He fell so far behind that he is failing most of his classes and school officials sent... Read more...
Published 12 hours ago

English 101
The Atlantic magazine has a wonderful essay by a part-time instructor discussing the challenges of teaching (and taking) English 101 and 102 at “colleges of last resort”. While his campus may have some of the trappings of ivy league, the students sitting in his classes are a... Read more...
Published 12 hours ago

Chronically Disorganized
Anyone heard of an outfit called The National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization? According to their web site they provide, among other things, solutions to help “chronically disorganized people”. I wonder if they’re looking for research subjects. I may have to move in! Read more...
Published 2 days ago

The Tests Dont Work
How relevant are graduation exams, those tests students in many states must take to get their diploma, to things like the job prospects of graduates and and their learning? Not much according to research to be published later this spring. A study by the university’s Rob Warren and... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Wheres the Blogging at the Blogger Summit?
The Education Blogger Summit sponsored by ED in ‘08 is going on today just up the road from here. For an event calling itself a “blogger summit” it’s amazing how few blog posts about the sessions there are to be found. Four so far, two of them not directly about the... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Blocking the Camera
Andy tells an interesting but scary story of almost being arrested for taking pictures in Washington DC’s Union Station. Although his camera was somewhat unusual (Gigapan is a new device to capture a 360 panorama), the rotating group of security people really couldn’t give him a solid... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

We Need Harsher Penalities
It really says something about how much of a failure NCLB really is when a right-wing mouth piece like the Wall Street Journal is highly critical of the law. Of course, their complaints are that the penalties are not harsh enough (as opposed to concerns that the concepts on which the bill is... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Smile for the Cameras
Over the past decade, the UK has spent billions of pounds to install and monitor closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras on tens of thousand of street corners around the country. It’s a system that many homeland security fanatics hold up as an example of what should be done here in the US... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Teachable Moment
I’d guess that just about every candidate for public office in this country has established a web site to support his or her campaign. But should we allow a 5th grader running for president of the student association to do the same thing? It’s a question that came up this week and,... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Try Talking to Someone Else
More evidence that the music industry really doesn’t understand the people formerly known as “customers” (now largely considered by them to be filthy pirates). The head of the RIAA’s technology unit believes there is a “movement” where people will no longer... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Meanwhile, Somewhere Else
Since it takes a while for international news to break through the wall of celebrity gossip and political trivia here in the US, I just learned today that a long dormant volcano in Chile began a major eruption last Friday. While that’s interesting enough, it was this slide show of pictures... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

Testing Trumps Teaching Everytime
Our district subscribes to Discovery Education Streaming, an excellent collection of video and other resources for instruction at just about any level and for almost any topic. We’ve made it available to teachers for a couple of years now and most of them love the materials and use the... Read more...
Published 1 week ago