Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
An article in the Fresno Bee today described how Fresno Unified is finally going to take seriously the fact that they are woefully behind in their technology hardware, network, etc. The Chief Technololgy Officer for FUSD, Kurt Madden, called the district's technology, "the worst in the state."
Some tidbits that were ...
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
According to this NPR piece by Frank Deford, senior writer for Sports Illustrated, Burmingham Southern decided to do "the unthinkable." The board voted their college out of the business of athletic entertainment. Where students play sports because they want to, not because they're paid performers. They completely dropped all athletic ...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
As teachers, sometimes we are more in a position to define our nation's beginnings than others in society. This is particularly true of teachers who teach American History (5th, 8th, and 10th grades).
Some Christians (teachers or not) are tempted to define the U.S. as a "Christian nation", and take this ...
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
In the last couple weeks of the recent election, this picture, and John Kerry's careless, bad joke about the troops...er...Bush was a hot news item.
As a teacher, it was a bit funny to see spelling conventions used as a crucial part of a joke (the soldiers' joke in response to ...
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
I blogged earlier about the ongoing saga of the requirement NCAA teams not be named for any Native American-esque words (Indians, Savages, Redskins, etc.)
Developments since that time: Some teams/colleges have been able to get the blessing of the specific tribe that they are names after (Fighting Sioux, for example).
This story ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
There has been an enormous amount of buzz in the ed-tech blogosphere lately about DOPA, Delete Online Predators Act.
Here is the wikipedia article about it. Be sure to glance at the Arguments in Opposition.
This is also a good summary from David Warlick.
In short, this is a bill that would go ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
As I have gotten more into blogging as a professional, with adults as my audience, it occured to me that some thoughts I have expressed during the past school on various issues might be of interest to readers of this blog.
So, it is with that in mind that I ...
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