Sunday, September 19, 2010
Education - Inside Bay Area
Education - Inside Bay Area
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While Cal State University raises tuition, over-60 students get in free - San Jose Mercury News
While Cal State University raises tuition, over-60 students get in free - San Jose Mercury News
At a time when state budget cuts are increasing fees for young students at California State University, a little-known program allows senior citizens to enroll — for free.
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Bandwidth is the Library Card of the Modern Age
Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Bandwidth is the Library Card of the Modern Age
Bandwidth is the Library Card of the Modern Age
The Internet is an increasing source of excellent quality video content. This video is an example - from National Geographic and their daily update:
Diving in the Maya Sacred Pools
gives UP TO DATE information on current discoveries in science. In this video, divers discuss how they have found some ancient artifacts in Belize and also you can see the fascinating way that they go through the bottom of a pool into an area where water comes out of the spring. You'd have to see it to believe it at the beginning! (So cool.)
The point is that the Internet is our library and that between features like this and services like Discovery
Diving in the Maya Sacred Pools
gives UP TO DATE information on current discoveries in science. In this video, divers discuss how they have found some ancient artifacts in Belize and also you can see the fascinating way that they go through the bottom of a pool into an area where water comes out of the spring. You'd have to see it to believe it at the beginning! (So cool.)
The point is that the Internet is our library and that between features like this and services like Discovery
Week in Lab Week Two for 2010 | Reflections on Teaching
Week in Lab Week Two for 2010 | Reflections on Teaching
Week in Lab Week Two for 2010
Hello! I was a little reticent in last week’s posting about the lab. I think that reflected some of where I was at then. The first week is about establishing routines. Every year, the kids get cranky because I insist we review the rules, and wait to let them on the computers and Internet. Also, I have to do a lot of direct instruction going through the rules. The classes are short, due to the short week (four days, and I don’t take classes on day one,
Candidate drops out of HISD District VIII race | School Zone | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Candidate drops out of HISD District VIII race | School Zone | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Candidate drops out of HISD District VIII race
Cheryl Moodie, one of six people who filed last month to run for the District VIII school board seat, has withdrawn from the race because she failed to meet the state mandate that candidates have lived in Texas for a full 12 months. Moodie, a consultant and former high-level hospitality executive, moved to a luxury highrise in Houston earlier this year from Louisiana. (Candidates must live in the district in which they are running for six months, and Moodie said she met that requirement.)
Moodie's withdrawl leaves five people in the running for the Nov. 2 special election to fill the
Old school. � Fred Klonsky's blog
Old school. � Fred Klonsky's blog
Old school.
Old school.
Procol Harum.
Saturday coffee.
We took Ulysses to the dog beach this morning just before the rains came down. It feels like it is going to be one of those day-long soaking rains rather than just a quick passing storm.
This was a good week, politically. The privateers got their heads handed to them by the voters of DC. Whatever deals they end of making, whatever buy-out or foundation job Michelle Rhee finally ends up with, none of that will
Procol Harum.
We took Ulysses to the dog beach this morning just before the rains came down. It feels like it is going to be one of those day-long soaking rains rather than just a quick passing storm.
This was a good week, politically. The privateers got their heads handed to them by the voters of DC. Whatever deals they end of making, whatever buy-out or foundation job Michelle Rhee finally ends up with, none of that will
YAF ED Stumps for Pot Legalization � Student Activism
YAF ED Stumps for Pot Legalization � Student Activism
YAF ED Stumps for Pot Legalization
Not sure what, if anything, to make of this, but Jordan Marks, the executive director of Young Americans for Freedom, has taken a seat on the board of marijuana legalization group Just Say Now.
YAF, a right-wing student group created by William F. Buckley in 1960, has long been a major conservative force on the American campus. They have historically opposed drug legalization, and as far as I can glean from
Saturday, September 18, 2010
UC Berkeley's sports dilemma
UC Berkeley's sports dilemma
UC Berkeley's sports dilemma
Credit Cal with taking up a third-rail topic: the runaway costs of college sports. After trimming...
PhotosCalifornia needs more charter schools
The California Department of Education issued a news release Monday touting 10 years of uninterrupted...
Latest AP Education Headlines
Academy of Art students show at Lincoln Center
- The careers of 22 students from San Francisco's famed Academy of Art University once again got a jump start at Lincoln Center during...
Chronicle 9.17.10 4:00 AM
Brandeis grad’s network unites college students who want to help the world’s poor - The Boston Globe
Brandeis grad’s network unites college students who want to help the world’s poor - The Boston Globe
(Andrew Tsang)
Fighting Poverty 101
Brandeis grad’s network unites college students who want to help the world’s poor
(Andrew Tsang)The Millennium Campus Network, cofounded by the Newton North and Brandeis graduate, will bring 1,000 college students from around the country to Columbia University for a two-day conference this weekend.
Q. What is the Millennium Campus Network and how did it start?
A. It’s a national nonprofit connecting college students across the US and empowering their efforts to tackle global poverty. I cofounded it when I was a senior at Brandeis. We’ve got 37 member organizations on 17 campuses. Beyond that, we have an online network of 10,000 supporters around
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- Texas man who duped Army gets 6 months in prison(AP, 9/17/10)
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