students

Howdy all, At Claus's suggestion, I decided to start this thread to pose a few questions concerning a proposed "unofficial" workshop at TAM6. There seem to be a decent number of teachers on these boards who want to some kind of explicit teacher-oriented workshop at TAM6; however, due to time...

How about letting the many school accounting classes, which have to play with numbers anyway, get real world experience by "running the numbers" of their local school, and government budgets? This will help them learn how they both work, how much they cost, and where the money comes from. Can...

Apparently, dressing respectably is a violation of the school dress code: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2007/aug/23/golden_gate_high_school_student_gets_school_suspen/

I just found this, and I thought I would share with the rest of the class. A few days ago the Student "Scholars" for 9/11 "Truth" did their own debate with... Franklin Pierce College Republicans. Yeah, it's pretty bad. Seems just a little... slanted. Nothing really new, either- just...

Hi everyone, This is just a general call out for some of your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions. Between May 7th and 11th of this year, I'll be teaching a course on skepticism, pseudoscience, and critical thinking to a class of about 20 students from grades 8 through 12 (in Canada that's...

I can't believe that anyone in college would be stupid enough to be attracted by this type of "easy money." How dangerous is it? Take a gander at this . . . old news, but still relevant.

I just read this news this morning. I don't usually hear many favorable things about the ACLU but here is one: http://www.nj.com/newslogs/starledger/index.ssf?/mtlogs/njo_ledgerupdate/archives/2006_06.html#148180

Coming soon on an episode of "College Minorities Gone Wild": Gallaudet Univ. President-Elect Draws Fire OK, so they're not a minority at the school. But I think this is akin to black students protesting a choice of a white university president. I agree with the following quote:

Houston public schools give students attending Mardi Gras "Unexcused absences" http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3692446.html Some parents of displaced New Orleans students living in Houston are upset with the Houston School District's policy of giving failing grades to students...

From the BBC: Sounds like someone has got Mushie's jimmy in a jamb.

I heard on the news last night the Hewlett pPackard is to lay oiff 18,000 employees. This got me thinking..... Throughout recent history we have been hearing about many such mega-layoffs. And then people ask, "Where is everyone going to find work?" Good question. Everyone expects some company...

As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out - the equivalent of 1980s manufacturing jobs. The research firm Gartner Inc. predicts that up to 15 percent of...

A huge body of data, I must say. Very interesting.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The popularity of distance education has spread from colleges to earlier grades, as students in more than one-third of U.S. school districts take courses over the Internet or through video conferences, according to the first federal study of the issue. From social studies and...

Interesting.

I was thinking about Rouser2's assertion that medical students got experience with patients who were knocked out. But I kept thinking about that, and I don't recall anything of the sort. An Anecdotal tale: When I was in the hospital for various chemotherapy treatments, very often the...

so, at TAM2 the wonderful Andrew gave me his "Wizard School" DVD. I also bought his DVD "Shock FX". Has this made my job easy! for the first through third graders (lower el) I show them one of the tricks from "WIzard School". The DVD is broken up so that the trick is shown, then how to...

Story I wonder what they were studying at the time. Edgar Allan Poe, perhaps? :D

http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/12/01/undocumented.students.ap/index.html ...full article This just goes to show that social "security" does more to hinder freedom than it does to help.

http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/

Inspired by the "Just Follow Directions" thread and the posts made by PygmyPlaidGiraffe. As a teacher, my students dont appear to be at the sharpest marbles. Every year I am bombarded with the stupidest most god-awful things I've ever heard in my life. The things my TA's and I put up with can...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18342-2003Jun5.html ...full article A few years before I graduated, some kids at our school let loose 100 mice on the last day of school. People were throwing them against the wall and kicking them, it was pretty gross. I also heard that at...