(Oklahoma) Bill promotes school religion at expense of education
The bill requires public schools to guarantee students the right to express their religious viewpoints in a public forum, in class, in homework and in other ways without being penalized. If a student’s religious beliefs were in conflict with scientific theory, and the student chose to express [...]
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Connect The Dots, Oklahoma Edition
September 19th, 2009
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President Of The United States Inspires America’s Children
September 9th, 2009
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Once again, the Republican/conservative noise machine puts itself firmly and squarely on the wrong side of history:
On the very first day of the school year, 12-year-old Mileena Rodriguez was reminded by President Barack Obama himself that hard work can take you places. Mileena listened to Obama’s plea to study hard and stay in school Tuesday, [...]
Kind Of The Point
September 8th, 2009
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The president’s much ballyhooed address has been the subject of right-wing hand wringing since it was announced weeks ago. Several schools refused to air it. In my home, the most stinging criticism of the speech came from my younger child, who lasted 10 minutes before pronouncing it ‘boring,’ grabbing her Hannah Montana wig and leaving [...]
Why America Shakes Its Head At Texas
July 12th, 2009
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Yes, lets hire a creationist to run the state education board. Lord. Then again, this is a decision made by Gov. Rick Perry – previously of Texas secession advocacy and even before that, Lieutenant Governor to… George W. Bush.
So, it makes perfect sense.
Onward, backwards regional southern party, onward!
Maryland #1 In AP Grads
February 5th, 2009
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Victory.
For the first time, Maryland ranks top in the nation for the share of high school graduates who passed at least one Advanced Placement test.
The College Board reported yesterday that 23.4 percent of Maryland students in the Class of 2008 earned passing scores on one or more AP exams, which cover material comparable to what [...]
Science Teacher Fail
January 13th, 2009
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Science teachers really shouldn’t trot out nonsense to try and attack evolution in class. God!
Gifted No More
December 16th, 2008
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Before I read Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers I would have been upset about this change to Montgomery County, MD’s “gifted” program – but Gladwell makes a pretty compelling case in his book that the practice of sorting kids into gifted programs so early tends to have the effect of unfairly excluding kids who are [...]
Teacher Fired For “Wizardry” In… Wait For It… Florida
May 6th, 2008
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Can we declare our independence from Florida? Just in interest of propping up the national IQ.
Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.
But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land ‘O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of [...]
Florida Anti-Evolution Education Bills Dead
May 3rd, 2008
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For a while, at least, some of the kids in Florida have a shot at a non-stupid science education.
A Puppet Pwns Ben Stein And His Stupid Intelligent Design Movie “Expelled”
May 1st, 2008
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I posted this in links yesterday, but I’m putting it here because I thought it was funny and worth more notice. I really hate these intelligent design (creationism) people and the way they continue to try and pervert science and education. Expelled and Ben Stein are even worse because they try to link Nazism and [...]
When I Moved From Florida It Got Dumber, Now It Is Even Worse
April 23rd, 2008
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The legislature down there in America’s appendage passed a bill that calls for the theory of evolution (caution: may contain science-like material) to be downgraded to just contradictory noise in order to allow creationism based “intelligent design” into the classroom.
This reminds me of why I dislike Florida so.
Yet Again: Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Does Not Work
March 24th, 2008
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Proven, for the 7 millionth time.
Stoking the fire, a study published in the April edition of the Journal of Adolescent Health found that those who received comprehensive sex education were 50 percent less likely to become pregnant than those who received abstinence-only education. The study also found that those who received comprehensive sex education were [...]
Abstinence Only Doesn’t Work. In Other News, Water Is Wet.
November 7th, 2007
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