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Category Archives: Education
Real literacy?
Killing the written word by snippets – Los Angeles Times Students are trading in books for search-and-seizure learning on the Internet, and real literacy is getting lost along the way. … One memorable freshman sagely informed me that people shouldn’t … Continue reading
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Discrepancies in Testing
Students Ace State Tests, but Earn D’s From U.S. – New York Times A comparison of state test results against the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal test mandated by the No Child Left Behind law, shows that … Continue reading
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Turning academia into a cafeteria – Los Angeles Times
Turning academia into a cafeteria – Los Angeles Times DECADES AGO, I clutched an official New York state examination booklet as a proctor threatened me and hundreds of my nervous schoolmates with a felony conviction if we cheated. We dutifully … Continue reading
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Values, rules, patterns and theories of social causation
BBC NEWS | Politics | ‘A third of pubs’ to open longer About one-third of all the pubs, clubs and shops in England and Wales licensed to sell alcohol are to get longer opening hours, BBC research suggests. Now, this … Continue reading
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Access vs. close-reading journalism as a metaphor for educational standards
Access Holy Wood – On the Media BROOKE GLADSTONE: Ah, Watergate, the gift that keeps on giving. But aside from Woodward’s access to well-placed anonymous sources, there’s little resemblance between Watergate Bob and White House Bob. Watergate Bob used disgruntled … Continue reading
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Some misconceptions by the defenders of the Theory of Evolution
Evolution is, in fact, the foundation of the entire science of modern biology and much of modern medicine. No, there is no absolute ”proof” of evolution, but that’s not how science works. The evolutionary theory of origin of species is … Continue reading
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