Archive for the ‘ Education ’ Category

Job Market Less Than Kind To Recent College Grads

The NY Times has the newest studies and infographics on how new college graduates are faring in this wicked-fun economy. Basically, the higher-educated are working for pennies in jobs totally unrelated to their fields of study. Debt resulting from all that higher-ed tuition and all those textbooks is insane ($20,000 is standard), and must sting [ READ MORE ]

OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Meeting 2011

May marks the 10th anniversary of the OpenCourseWare movement, with the goal being the offering of courseware from legit sources (colleges, universities, etc.) online and free of charge. The OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Meeting 2011 begins May 4th (today) and goes through Friday the 6th in Cambridge Mass[ READ MORE ]

Literally

It’s not just me who’s driven insane (figuratively, of course) by people who swear to me that they waited in line at the ATM “literally forever!” (I’m always too polite to mention that if that were true, they’d still be in that stupid line and wouldn’t be standing in front of me, abusing the hell out of “literally.”[ READ MORE ]

Too Many Erasures on D.C. Standardized Tests

Have I not stated the utter worthlessness of standardized tests? They’re the faster, stronger, better version of pure evil; the quickest way to inadequately measure how the infinitesimally funded teachers of the American public school system educate their K-12 pupils. Filling in bubbles on a one-size-fits-all metric of knowledge absorption is not only the most [ READ MORE ]

Vocab Film Fest

Student filmmakers who can grok vocabulary words like nobody’s business should consider entering the Vocab Film Festival. Cash and scholarships are involved should you require fiercer motivation than the simple purity of knowledge acquisition[ READ MORE ]

Massive Guilt Expected From High School Drop-Outs

Thinking of being a high school drop-out when you grow up? Please won’t you first consider the role you’ll be playing in taking society down to its knees[ READ MORE ]

Free Resources for Teaching Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Educator Richard Byrne likes to point out Free Technology for Teachers. He has a timely list of three resources for teaching students about earthquakes and tsunamis. Sometimes understanding what the hell happened helps everyone feel a little better. Posted by Alexa Harrington[ READ MORE ]

Dr. Tae Tells It Like It Is

He had me at “School sucks.” And then Dr. Tae, physics prof at Northwestern University, explained exactly why that statement is true for both high schools and universities. He is direct, eloquent, and sites MythBusters as not only the most scientific show on television, but also exactly what science is supposed to be: lots of [ READ MORE ]

Tightly Wound Parental Units

The parents who will be driving their offspring to insanity as soon as the kids can spell S-A-T start in on the psychotic haranguing early[ READ MORE ]

Creating Amazing Learning Experiences

It didn’t make me cry like a dumb wussy girl, but I did think grateful thoughts, yet again, that I’ve been lucky enough to have had some in my life. [ READ MORE ]