Oct 20 2006
Talking the Edutalk:
At many schools, 6-year-olds don’t compare books anymore — they make “text-to-text connections.” Misbehaving students face not detention but the “alternative instruction room,” or “reinforcement room,” or “reflection room.” Children who once read now practice “SSR,” or “sustained silent reading.”
And in Maryland, high schoolers write “extended constructed responses” — the essay, in […]
Oct 20 2006
Over on South Park Pundit, Josh questions the actions of one of the characters on last week’s CSI episode:
Now, albeit a dramatized situation, I sat in rapt astonishment watching one of the characters, Sanders, get his ass royally beaten by a group of adolescents. This is a CSI, a law enforcement officer of a […]
Oct 20 2006
I’m not sure what happened to the writers when they wrote this week’s Lost episode, but that was a low point.
Mysterious? Fine.
Inexplicable? Fine.
Bizarre? Fine.
Carlos Castaneda out of body experiences? Can it.
Also, I’m getting a bit sick of the Others subplot. For some reason, I get the feeling the writers want us to sympathize with the […]
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Oct 20 2006
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