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Thursday, November 28, 2013

11-28-13 The Answer Sheet

The Answer Sheet:




Are turkeys really the dumbest animals?
Are the turkeys on your Thanksgiving dinner plates really the dumbest animals in the world? Given that sponges and jellyfish are animals, and they don’t have as much as a single brain cell, the answer would seem to be no, but let’s just look at the the universe of animals with brains, however tiny. In […]    
11-27-13 The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: ‘No one really cares, do they?’“No one really cares, do they?”  That is one of the reasons for why No Child Left Behind won’t be rewritten, according to a new report on what “education influentials” think will happen in the world of education. Actually, a lot of people care, because it affects what happens in classrooms to children, but, apparently, it’s […]    by Valerie Strauss