I love thezman’s ‘Essential Knowledge’ posts. Much of my recent reading is the books he recommends. And now I’ve subscribed to a podcast in this post.
Category: Education
School administrators don’t have much tolerance for student’s ‘straight pride’ posters | EAGnews.org
“Celebrate being straight at JHS by not annoying the heck out of everyone about your sexual orientation!” read the flyers, posted in the school’s hallways after classes last Thursday. “It’s easy! Just come to the JHS, then you go about your day without telling everyone about how ‘different’ and ‘special’ you are!”
Source: School administrators don’t have much tolerance for student’s ‘straight pride’ posters | EAGnews.org
This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 3 – 11 – Sky & Telescope
Some daily sky events among the ever-changing Moon, planets, stars and constellations, from Sky & Telescope magazine, the essential guide to astronomy.
Source: This Week’s Sky at a Glance, March 3 – 11 – Sky & Telescope
Essential Knowledge: Part VI | The Z Blog
The fall of the Western Roman Empire used to be thought of as a collapse of civilization, leaving a great void into which swarmed barbarians. Out of the rubble, the people of Europe slowly rebuilt civilization into what we think of as the Middle Ages. The reality is the fall of Rome was a process. Roman rule was replaced by something else, something local and indigenous.
Zman’s ‘Essential Knowledge’ posts are full of links to good books for your continuing education.
Articles: K-12 Quagmire: Problems with Sight-Words
Every language is either a sound-language such as English or a picture-language such as Chinese. They are opposites. You cannot mix them without creating mental chaos. But what do you know? Our public schools insist on mixing them together. This is dogma in today’s K-12.
Most Americans have heard of “balanced literacy.” That’s jargon for mixing them together.
Blog: Atheist teacher claims to be ‘bullied’ by middle school students
There is no reporting on what precipitated the razzing from students. How do they know she’s an atheist? Almost certainly because she told them. Many atheists use disparaging language to describe the religious beliefs of others, and it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if that were the case here.
Source: Blog: Atheist teacher claims to be ‘bullied’ by middle school students
A Basic Long Gun Primer | Stately McDaniel Manor
Fun Fact: Firing from the hip or waving the muzzle wildly from side to side while emptying a magazine—which looks dramatic and macho in movies–is an excellent way to miss everything you’re trying to hit and hitting everything you’re not trying to hit. This is commonly known as “spray and pray.”
Snowflake Loses Court Case Forcing Parents to Cough Up College Tuition | MRCTV
She hadn’t talked to her folks in two years, but that didn’t stop her from taking them to court and trying to legally force them to cough up a pile of dough for her expensive, completely voluntary out-of-state school fees.
If I were a guy, I’d stay clear of this snowflake. If this is what she did to the parents, the mind boggles at what she’d do to you.
Source: Snowflake Loses Court Case Forcing Parents to Cough Up College Tuition | MRCTV
Articles: A Brief and Appalling History of the Department of Education
There has never been a constitutional basis for any federal control over education in the states.
Source: Articles: A Brief and Appalling History of the Department of Education
DeVos Confirmed | Ricochet
In what can only be seen as a historic piece of strategy on the part of Democrats, by delaying Jeff Session’s elevation to the cabinet they allowed him to remain in the Senate and vote for DeVos.
Smartest people in the room… ?
Source: DeVos Confirmed | Ricochet