Archive for August 2008

On Teaching Evolution in the High School Biology Class

August 31, 2008

Don’t seem to care even to read

August 31, 2008

Certainly some ultimate educational values seem forever to be eluding the Americans. At great effort and expense they send an extraordinary proportion of their young to colleges and universities; but their young, when they get there, do not seem to care even to read.(Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter, 1962, p. 301)

Long Ago

August 30, 2008

Long  ago, there were people who believed the Earth was hollow—a thin outer shell and a void in the center. There are still people who believe in this void, except they say creatures from outer space live there. Others have different fears. in the 1960s, the Congress of the United States was considering legislation to [...]

Maulana Fazlullah and Karen Larson

August 29, 2008

The Waring School, 1980′s, Part Two

August 27, 2008

School Culture and Declining Resources

August 23, 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead at 89

August 3, 2008