education curriculum

Do you think the education system in the US is too easy?

I think the education curriculum in the US advocates more creative thinking than other systems like the UK's, which is more academi

Fate of Kaifeng Jews as a reflection of their treatment by the Han Chinese

The Jews don't feel they are Jews if they are not persecuted. "I am persecuted, therefore I am" seems to be their motto. The Kaifeng Jews in China were the only exceptions. I had never met a...

do u think sex should be a subject in the education curriculum

hello friends do u think sex should be a subject in the education curriculum?

Golf elitist? Why not make it egalitarian?

If you happened to cast a cursory glance at Chinese newspapers over the past few months, you might be forgiven for thinking there had been an outbreak of golf-itis. Even in China Daily, the night...

Teachers - Unsung Heroes

What the Hell is a supply teacher, anyway?In an incident that perhaps gives a new meaning to the phrase 'supply teacher', a 59-year-old substitute teacher has been arrested on suspicion of repeatedly...

THEY'LL KNOW FUNKYTOWN BETTER THAN THE NATIONAL ANTHEM (via The Mother Judd):

P.E. Classes Turn to Video Game That Works Legs (SETH SCHIESEL, 4/30/07, NY Times) Children don’t often yell in excitement when they are let into class, but as the doors opened to the upper level of...

What Are They Learning

While Barack Obama thinks that kindergarteners should have sex education available to them, The Washington Times has a story showing just how ridiculously scary sex ed curriculums have...

"All we are saying ..."

I’m not sure what to call it, but the neo-peace movement seems appropriate.Bruce Bawer, in an LA Times piece today, talks about the growing peace movement which seems to think that the time is...

You can't teach professionally and perform professionally

I was flabbergasted today during a discussion in one of my teacher certification courses when the course instructor suggested...well, actually, the instructor flat out told this class of music...

You can't teach professionally and perform professionally - misperceptions on both sides of the divi

I was flabbergasted today during a discussion in one of my teacher certification courses when the course instructor suggested...well, actually, the instructor flat out told this class of music...

Microsoft Pushes Copyright Education Curriculum

Dotnaught writes "Backed by a study that says teens show more respect for copyrights when told of possible jail time for infringement, Microsoft is launching a new intellectual property curriculum to...

More Permanent Web Archives from Archive-It: From FOIA Sites to Bay Area Governments

Three new permanent web archive collections from Stanford’s Social Sciences Resource Group and The Internet Archive’s Archive-It service. + Bay Area Governments This collection focuses...

Witches Are Made of Wood, Too

It seems we (as in, Americans) are taught this lesson the hard way over and over again, yet we continue to refuse to actually learn it. It turns out, yet again, as it always has, that if all you ever...

Shouldn't The USPTO's Education Curriculum Be Accurate?

I started my still-ongoing series of posts on intellectual property as a counter to the incredibly one-sided brain-washing educational campaigns put together by companies that only seemed to talk...