Apr 08 2007
If you have nothing but tail ends, what better to make than soup–especially when there’s snow on the ground? If you have, say, about 3 1/2 quarts of rich, gelatinous, homemade beef stock left, apply what I call the “what would taste good?” principle–but remember, most of the ingredients you must have on hand. Here’s […]
Apr 08 2007
Originally published September 17 2006:
Some eight years ago, I attended a series of presentations (not by choice) given by the ed school diversity police. At one, we got the party line on “learning styles/modalities,” presented with no evidence to back it up because like contrastive rhetoric, there is no evidence to back it up.
A particularly […]
Apr 08 2007
First, we had overpopulation, then global cooling and the coming ice age, then nuclear winter, then smoking, and currently, the most popular Chicken Littlisms are global warming climate change, transfats, red meat, and on alternating days, obesity and malnutrition. The latest is going to be
[drum roll]
Zits.
Follow the links.
Apr 08 2007
While I was collecting NAEP data, I thought I’d see if the explosion in education spending from NCLB has any relationship to the percentage of students proficient or above in math and reading, so I downloaded the most recent data (8th graders, 2005, aggregated by state). First, though, I was curious to see if there […]
Apr 08 2007
Yesterday, I looked at the Department of Education data on doctorates awarded from 1971 up to 2004. I was going to look at the aggregated data by discipline, but, well, first, I don’t know if you’ve actually downloaded data from the Dept of Ed, but whoever sets up the Excel files doesn’t have a clue […]
