Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Saturday, June 14th, 2008
It's not late now. As a matter of fact, I'm writing on a Saturday morning at 08:39 EDT. It's getting late in the job search season for teachers. School ends in two weeks. It may as well end in one week, because the last week is a series of half-days, ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
(The ID in the audio says "Episode 36", but it's really 35!)
Family Entertainment is expensive, Sex and Marries Couples, Luxury Treehouses, Build your own hovercraft, Bicycle Safety, Male Pregnancy, and Randy Pausch's "Last Lecture". Plus, Dad's News.
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Parent's think they are entitled to whatever they want in school, Everyone I know I met in theater, and "The Talk" for a 10 year old girl. Dad's News and links after the jump.
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Music has always been important in my life. My mom always wanted to be trained in music, but her family was not interested in supporting her. She sang, but never studied. All of her brothers play guitar and sing.
I began my study in elementary school, when I started singing solos ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I was a terrible student. Terrible. I rarely did my homework. Don't get me wrong. I was smart enough to do it, but I was too lazy to do it.
It would have been hard to tell from my test grades. I'm the kind of person who can do well on ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
A federal judge ruled that a school district using wood chips around their playground equipment was a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The National Safety Council Playground Safety page agrees, and states "The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires that new playgrounds make appropriate accommodations for ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Does this sequence of events ring true for you?
Come home from a day at work to a house where all are happy.
Mom is getting ready to go out.
Children have their marching orders (or so you think).
Mom leaves.
Child 1 works independently.
You quiz Child 2 on material they know quite well, in ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
According to the American Psychological Association (APA), sexualization occurs when:
a person’s value comes only from his or her sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics;
a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness (narrowly defined) with being sexy;
a person is sexually objectified—that is, made into ...
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
Photo courtesy of classbrain.com
I was over at dvorak.org and happened to see this post on hit lists.
I found a number of things disturbing about it. First and foremost was the sheer number of incidents. How could there be so many? Then it was the idea that so many of ...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Click the penny to hear the podcast
With 2 kids growing up, we need to be able to pay for college. In this podcast, I discuss one plan that may not be going as well as we had hoped it would.
If you have thoughts, ideas, or links, send them in. ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Apparently Skippy's teachers just realized that next week is a Standardized Testing week. They will have to curtail their assignments and tests while the students take the English/ Language Arts exam.
As such, they are piling on two weeks worth of work this week. Skippy cam home with piles of homework ...
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
The US Postal Service, now acting as watchmen for all types of communication (responsibly so, I might add) has started a 2 SMRT 4U campaign, in which kids are encouraged to type and post responsibly.
It includes some useful tips for kids (geared especially toward girls) about "what to type" and ...
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Every night, we go through the same thing.
I have a fourth grade daughter, who has reached the point where proper names need to be capitalized, book reviews have to be thorough, and math problems need to be right. This requires a lot of support on our part. My wife and ...
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Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
Son and Daughter have both been enrolled in a reading program this summer.
They are not struggling readers, but they do have trouble with notes and following directions. It was our thought, since the vendor claims to have a special way of teaching children to take notes, that they may ...
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