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Category Archives: Education
Girl Wars, Boy Wars
The Girl Wars : Terrible Mother on Offsprung.com It seems like half the interactions between women can be classified as Girl Wars. Do we ever get out of this? And why the hell are girls so vicious to each other? … Continue reading
Sources of credibility and the results of education
I got an A in Phallus 101 – Los Angeles Times The problem that the Young America’s Foundation list, first issued in 1995, highlights isn’t simply the hollowing-out of the traditional humanities and social sciences disciplines at colleges and their … Continue reading
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Images of language and learning in mavenry
Limp language leaves kids with an awesome paucity of speech [Teenagers on which the author eavesdrops] They’ve got one all-purpose word — “awesome” — to cover everything from mild approval to exhilaration. When they’re indignant or angry, they have to … Continue reading
Images of cummulative causation and a theory of education
November 17, 2006, Hour Two: The Family that Couldn’t Sleep / The Artist and the Mathematician Starting in the 1930s, Nicolas Bourbaki published dozens of papers, becoming a famous mathematician. There was just one problem: he didn’t exist. Join Ira … Continue reading
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Education reform, memory, skill and secondary socialization
Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA PEKAN, Nov 4 Bernama — Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has called for the countrys memory-based education system to be replaced with one that promotes mind development so that the students become more creative … Continue reading
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Accepted, the review – Images of the educational process in popular culture
From the Wikipedia entry: Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they had applied, create their own college. … At one point Bartleby [the … Continue reading
Scenarios behind education
Bearing witness to a teacher’s task – The Boston Globe Many people believe they know what makes effective schools because they have attended school. This is akin to saying I am a physician because I’ve been in a hospital. I … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Education, Social Science
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Scenarios behind technology and education debate
The Books Google Could Open The nation’s colleges and universities should support Google’s controversial project to digitize great libraries and offer books online. It has the potential to do a lot of good for higher education in this country. … … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Education, Technology and life
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Values and statements about education
BostonHerald.com – Opinion & Editorial: Education studies show: $$ wasted on them Choice, competition and freedom are core values that define what we are about as a nation. The Bush administration proposal to appropriate $100 million in opportunity scholarships for … Continue reading
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Rationality and immigration
English is Spoken Here – Yahoo! News The second dumbest statement in the debate over Senate legislation establishing English as the national language came from Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), who said it was needlessly divisive. ADVERTISEMENT Wait. A law that … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Linguistics, Social Science
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