Global Spin

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about, now it looks like “a bloc of southern school districts are successfully removing science from all textbooks”:http://www.ambiguous.org/archive.php3/2005/03/24#robin2005324.1. Sigh. “But Chris,” you say, “They’re just calling for the removal of sex ed and evolution and the heliocentric model and other such blasphemies. Surely there’s still room for [...]

Posted by Chris in Education on March 28th, 2005 | Comments Off

An update on the Buster in Vermont controversy I “ranted about”:http://www.globalspin.com/mt/archives/000480.html earlier: An “absolutely idiotic article”:http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2005/02/27/news/opinion/edit07.txt by Bill O’Reilly underscores the basic misconception involved. O’Reilly claims that the issue isn’t gay couples, it’s that “sex in general is an inappropriate topic for small children.” And there you go. The first thing Bill O’Reilly thinks of [...]

Posted by Chris in Education on March 4th, 2005 | 2 Comments »

Gack! According to this “CNN article”:http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/31/students.amendment.ap/index.html, high school kids don’t understand what the First Amendment protects: _when told of the exact text of the First Amendment, more than one in three high school students said it goes “too far” in the rights it guarantees. Only half of the students said newspapers should be allowed to [...]

Posted by Chris in Education on January 31st, 2005 | Comments Off

The past few days it’s seemed like the Intarweb has been trying especially hard to make me angry. I was able to ignore most of the “disturbing”:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/26/MNGKQB0FSQ1.DTL “reports”:http://www.fordvehicles.com/autoshow/concept/synus/ up to now, but this one has me hoppin’ mad: _The nation’s new “education secretary”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Spellings “denounced PBS on Tuesday”:http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3009795 for spending public money on a cartoon with [...]

Posted by Chris in Education on January 26th, 2005 | 13 Comments »

I just came across the BBC’s “Learning Site”, featuring fun, educational games and even online classes. For some reason, I think this may especially be kk’s cup o’ tea (har har). (I’m off to try the Italian course!) (Or maybe English, since I split an infinitive.)

Posted by Deana in Education on August 29th, 2004 | Comments Off