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I always assumed that all publicly-funded schools in the UK had to teach the national curriculum, but it appears that isn't the case for the directly-funded free schools: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20547195 and they have been able to teach creationism instead. This loophole has been...

I have recently changed jobs and in my new post as a Community Learning & Development Guidance Worker, I have the opportunity to develop and deliver free workshops to people that live in the local communities. I'd like to develop a 6 week workshop on critical thinking. I will have to submit...

I am not sure that this is the best forum to put my question in, but anyway: Recently I stumbled upon this website where the claim, in essence, is that people can be 're-programmed' by listening to audio tapes. The claims are impressive: if people listen regularly to statements that "research"...

Being an ex-teacher, in the Bible belt, I had my fair share of hearing, "Well, you should teach both sides." This is the way the conversation usually goes... "Okay...Both sides," I begin. "There is a belief, some people have looked at a few different animals and connected the dots. Some...

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...

Although I was brought up a catholic, I rejected it in my early teens and my children (a very catholic-like seven of them) were brought up without religion (sorry Jet Leg). Anyway my eldest daughter qualified as a teacher, went to London on a working holiday and got a job at a catholic primary...

I'm currently taking a course in basic medicine in high school. We recently got the assignment of studying some branch of alternative medicine. So I and a friend decided that we would invent a new type of CAM. We would then post descriptions of it at various woo forums, and attempt to get people...

After a 12-hour day last week, it was not a good time to contemplate changing careers. But the time has come. After teaching seven years, I am not going back next fall. I have such ambivalent feelings about this decision knowing that I will regret leaving the classroom. It has been such a great...

My brother is certified, has subbed, done well, etc etc but can't find a perm job to save his life (has taught mostly HS). He lives in PA and been looking in this general area of country, but I think is open to other areas. Ideas/info in this regard appreciated.......

I am an instructor in a small trade school in the Dallas area. I teach several technical certifications. Most of these require knowledge based learning (ie the type of learning that can be done using just rote memorization). Largely, the students who can grasp cognitive learning will succeed...

I am the happy father of a 4 yo little boy who is, I think, exceptionally cute and a G.D. genius, too boot. Well, he's not a genius, but I think he falls on the high side of average. At 4, he is able to read well enough to surprise all of his pre-school teachers and day-care providers. This...

Peace, love, and tolerance.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1735730,00.html Archbishop: stop teaching creationism Williams backs science over Bible Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Tuesday March 21, 2006 The Guardian The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1735730,00.html Archbishop: stop teaching creationism Williams backs science over Bible Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent Tuesday March 21, 2006 The Guardian The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the...

Now it just remains to see if his words have any weight

I am currently running a course that covers a range of topics, but is largely focused on critical thinking and related cognitive abilities. I have a lot of experience delivering the material, but my current group of clients are almost all illiterate. I was aware of this before I began, but I...

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Found this linked on Panda's Thumb: http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/politics/12278405.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Good afternoon. I just saw this article in a local paper today. The Learning Channel is going to be doing a series following a local psychic to haunted houses in New Jersey. South Plainfield Psychic brings her gut instincts to TV The reason this caught my eye is because I recently moved...

For those of you who don’t know me (hello) I work in Italy teaching English as a foreign language and now that I’m good enough at the basics that I can play with the form a bit, I’ve started introducing skeptical themes into my lessons. Sometimes the material demands it, for example...

Herewith Victor Zammit's recommendation for improving the "psi" abilities of children in school...just like they do in China, apparently. www.victorzammit.com

GRANTSBURG, Wis. - The city's school board has revised its science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism, prompting an outcry from more than 300 educators who urged that the decision be reversed. School board members believed that a state law governing the teaching of evolution...

Story here. Nice. Way to rip off the immigrants that come here and try to make something of themselves. And yes, the teaching about the Congress is inherently humourous, but wrong! Very, very wrong!

Hi All Towards the end of last year Richard Saunders informed you of our efforts to take critical thinking into the science classrooms by creating a school science show called Mystery Investigators. We look at paranormal claims, reproduce them, and use these claims in a fun way to demonstrate...

Hello! What follows is a cut-n-paste from a post I made on Penn and Teller's messageboards over on Mofo. "... are there any teachers out there who are interested in teaching an episode of ‘Bulls**t’ to their students? I know some episodes (eg. ‘Sex sex sex’) obviously would be frowned upon by...

has anyone done one of those overseas english teaching gigs? I would like to hear more about it. Thank-you Virgil

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20031118/od_nm/life_australia_crime_dc An interesting idea, is there any research to back this up, or is it pie in the sky?

Hello All, I'm doing a research paper on how and why critical thinking should be taught in schools. I would like to know if any of you teachers out here would like to be and interviewee for my project. It wouldn't take too much time, and correspondence would be by e-mail, as that is easiest...

(This is on philosophy and not science because I am discussing the philosophy of science) There is a big problem in today's world. People are taught scientific facts, maybe they do a little bit of experimenting, but there is little time spent on teaching what science is. Take the number one...

So much of magic is presentation. The mechanics or "secret" is often a minor thing in comparison to the presentation. This hit home for me last weekend, when I performed a card trick for a friend and his son (a really smart young man who will soon enter his final year of high school). They...