how cool … my book covers in one place … it adds up to … undeniable proof … of … what?
tell me in comments, please

i’ve had occassion today to wonder why i blog the way i do … well … how is that?
i blog doubly … here and over there at plainer … my reasons for plainer should be self-evident … i am a mad bad poet … pretending … a drummit …
blogging here at two (which used to [...]

you need a really fast connection for this … i’ve only looked at a bit of the site, but am intrigued … art is cool … it wakes up my brain & other parts

I do not and have never blogged anonymously, and I do not appreciate the implication that I have. Teachers should be openly writing about their practice in order to learn and to educate the public on their work. To hide behind a pseudonym is usually license for taking liberties with the truth, and [...]

i was happy to receive a quick response yesterday to my inquiry about the editorial manipulation of franklin’s passage in our american literature textbook … my correspondent was candid in noting that the company had used conservative guidelines … that by removing the word “venery” (and the entire definition of “chastity”) from the text, [...]

o go see suzanne’s windows

a friend is silent when i ask if sometimes i come on like a know-it-all…
o god …
i do … i do at least sometimes come on like a know-it-all … this is terrible … i hate know-it-alls … they really bug me … and here i am … one of them … this [...]

a friend is silent when i ask if sometimes i come on like a know-it-all…
o god …
i do … i do at least sometimes come on like a know-it-all … this is terrible … i hate know-it-alls … they really bug me … and here i am … one of them … this [...]

on knowledge, power and teaching
“You don’t read texts to find the truth. The truth is something you discover by inquiry.”

Consistent Life - Voices for Peace and Life.
We are committed to the protection of life, which is threatened in today’s world by war, abortion, poverty, racism, capital punishment and euthanasia. We believe that these issues are linked under a ‘consistent ethic of life’. We challenge those working on all or some of these issues to [...]

A Stand Against Wikipedia.
While plenty of professors have complained about the lack of accuracy or completeness of entries, and some have discouraged or tried to bar students from using it, the history department at Middlebury College is trying to take a stronger, collective stand. It voted this month to bar students from citing the Web [...]

LEARNING THROUGH PROJECTS TEACHES STUDENTS IMPORTANT PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS.
Project-based learning is based on the constructivist learning theory, which finds that learning is deeper and more meaningful when students are involved in constructing their own knowledge. Students are given the opportunity to select a topic that interests them within the required content framework and then they [...]

Hype vs. Hope.
Ten percent of a two-year-old’s nouns are brand names; by the time an American child heads to school, he or she can recognize hundreds of logos.

Roger Schank : Never Discussed.
That’s why there is such a fuss about teaching evolution. The fuss is about whose indoctrination will win. The fuss should be about letting children learn to evaluate evidence and come to their own conclusions, But that would mean there wasn’t a right answer and schools always know the right answer. [...]