Posts Tagged ‘ Teachers ’

Poetic Memorization

Hilarious bit about what happens when students are made to memorize great poetical works and can recite them at will for life, even when drunk and wandering the streets in the dead of night. [ READ MORE ]

Pennsylvania Schools Cheated Also

And I’m super duper excited to read American History a few decades from now when someone theorizes that President Bush and his No Child Left Behind Act pushed American educators to cheat on standardized tests. [ READ MORE ]

Atlanta Cheats, Too

Remember the jackass educators in Washington D.C. who erased students’ incorrect answer bubbles and filled in the correct ones? So classy, so honest, such role models for the impressionable young minds they’re wearing down to nubs with high-pressure standardized tests. Adults suck. [ READ MORE ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

50 Open Courseware Classes for Teachers

Are you an awesome teacher with too much time on your hands? If you answered, “That’s not even possible!” then you’ve at least got the Awesome Teacher gene[ READ MORE ]