Posts Tagged ‘ NY Times ’

Homework-Free Society

Born too late for the homework-free society Race to Nowhere is bringing on? Sucks to be you. And me, I might add. Where in the hell was filmmaker Vicki Abeles when I was a wee slip of a thing, playing outside in the sunshine on my pink banana-seat BMX bike and feeling guilty about the 13 years of homework I never failed to put off until the morning it was due? [ 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 ]

Leave My Caffeine Addiction Alone, Scientists

Caffeine may not be considered as beneficial as scarfing down 5 pounds of organic kale, but it’s not the worst chemical we humans suck up. I feel particularly justified in my caffeine use/addiction as I don’t drink alcohol or smoke or have any recreational chemical habits of any kind. If I didn’t need caffeine, what else would I have to lose when the apocalypse comes? [ READ MORE ]

There’s Always Money In the Banana Stand*

These bothersome fixations are not at all interesting except to some annoying-ass bit of my grey matter, which has no effing business using its precious energy on anything but my quest for badass knowledge-acquisition and the pulling of me through reality in one piece[ READ MORE ]

NY Times Knowledge Network Announces Spring 2011 Schedule

The New York Times Knowledge Network has announced its Spring 2011 schedule. If you're planning to add Learn More Stuff! to your New Year's resolutions, I think the NY Times has you covered[ READ MORE ]

Advice for the College Interview

Some practical advice for all prospective college students facing college admission interviews[ READ MORE ]

Job Search Advice: What Your Prospective Boss Might Be Looking For

Students of life have it harder, especially if they’ve recently graduated into this here awesomely effed-up economic recession. No more dining hall access, which, as it turns out, is a hell of a lot worse than the food they serve[ READ MORE ]

Plagiarism Confuses the Information Generation

Plagiarism, for those of you who missed that day in class, is when you take someone else’s work and falsely claim it as your own. It’s very bad, and it makes you look like an ass@$%*[ READ MORE ]

Teaching Work Values to Children of Wealth

No can expect those young adults to have a graceful trajectory; they’ll smack the pavement a few times before they figure out the mechanisms of reality. [ READ MORE ]

Diane Ravitch Dares To Keep Thinking

The only humans that can claim open-mindedness are the ones that take in all available information, ponder the hell out of it, and then decide what their opinion is. [ READ MORE ]