The whole Sherri Shepherd issue really makes me wonder. First she says that she doesn’t know if the earth is flat or round, and now she says “I don’t think anything predated Christians.” While questions like “how [does] she manages to function with just a brain stem and no brain?” were asked in the comments [...]
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As I mentioned yesterday, Mike Dunford, one of the bloggers involved in the DonorsChoose Blogger Challenge, blogged about some of the new projects he had added to his list. They were totally heartbreaking, including a $298 request for an overhead projector screen (the teacher is currently using a sheet of white paper, which limits [...]
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A few weeks ago I wrote about DonorsChoose, an organisation that puts donors and teachers together. DonorsChoose allows people to pick the projects they want to fund. People can review proposals and select the proposals which appeal to them. During the month of October the DonorsChoose blogger challenge is running. Bloggers choose the projects [...]
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Considering the fact that the US is the richest country in the world, it never ceases to shock me that funding for education and health care are so uneven. Sure, there are top-notch schools, if you are in the right school district, and there is top-notch health case available if you have the right [...]
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The Zimmerman et al. article* points out that shows like Blue’s Clues, Sesame Street and Barney provide real educational benefits for children 2.5 - 5 years old, but that nothing has been shown to be valuable for child under the age of 2. Despite this utter lack of evidence though, a wide range [...]
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According to an article in ScienceNOW, videos like Baby Einstein and Brainy Baby, which are marketed to improve toddler language skills have exactly the opposite effect - children: [f]or every hour per day spent watching the videos, children understood an average of six to eight fewer words than did those of the same age who [...]
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Bug Girl has a great post about academia as a cult. Now I understand my feelings of unworth and the near-physical aversion reaction that even thinking about non-academic jobs gives me.
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