Archive for the ‘ K-12 ’ Category

Broadband Availability for U.S. Schools

School kids need broadband, too! There’s a nearly infinite universe of information available on the Internet, a bazillion football stadiums’ worth of hard copy knowledge that would never fit into a school library or classroom[ READ MORE ]

Bots High

If you’re feeling like you can’t come up with a single non-cool entity, it’s because none exist[ READ MORE ]

Civics 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress

Here’s the latest press release from the National Assessment Governing Board. I’m not a fan of standardized testing, but I’m sure there are others who feel differently and would like to know how well American school kids did on their civics exams. The full press release is below[ READ MORE ]

Simple List for High School Seniors

High school seniors who’ll be heading off to college in the fall are so over all the work they’ve put in thus far, every cell in their burnt out bodies is screaming to be finished. Seniors (and their cells, apparently) are fresh out of blood, sweat, and tears and it’s all they can do not to write it all off and just let go until June[ READ MORE ]

Secret SAT Scores

It’s a good message: this number is not what it all comes down to. Move on. [ READ MORE ]

Handy Tool for Choosing Which College to Attend

For high school seniors, April means making the biggest decisions of their College Admissions Odyssey: Which college to pick among the colleges that have chosen said seniors[ READ MORE ]

Would You Want to Be a Teacher?

Plus, the post-apocalyptic landscape that is public education today isn’t really my style. I prefer my apocalypses (apocalypsi?) nuclear flavored[ 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 ]