How can we expose more people to critical thinking?
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Iceland's Penis Museum...
by grayman » Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:42 am
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...finally gets a human member !
In life, Pall Arason sought attention. In death, he is getting it: The 95-year-old Icelander's pickled penis will...
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cvIj_t3-kC0
--J.D.
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Parents protest 6-year-old with peanut allergy
by Anaxagoras » Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:00 pm
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Because their kids' rights are being violated by being forced to do things like wash their hands. Oh, the humanity!
Parents picket girl with peanut...
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The stoopidz: It burns.
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The Real Problem with Education in Texas
by En folkefiende » Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:30 pm
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Yeah, that's right, hair coloring.
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Well I suppose that they could mandate everything be neutrally colored and uniform, so as to avoid distracting people.
Wait, I thought that was the...
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Can We Speak Of A "Conspiracy" Against Reading?
by BruceDeitrickPrice » Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:06 pm
When Admin asked if I were a bot, I replied like this:
No, I'm just a guy who writes a great deal about education. I'm particularly interested in...
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Are Chinese Mothers Superior?
by Anaxagoras » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:41 am
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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior -By AMY CHUA
A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder...
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When I was in college, I was a campus cop for 3 years (give or take).
narc.
No, but I presume you recognize the idea from your own experience....
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Some bad but not unexpected news
by sparks » Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:14 pm
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Just saw a sound bite on TV: The latest numbers are out, US of A high school kids rank 25th in Math and 17th in Science behind the rest of the...
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No, what it explains is that you need to work on your addition skillz.................. :) Like I said.................
But seriously, the mad...
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Best friends are teh evil
by Anaxagoras » Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:06 am
Postmodern educators say that kids should not have best friends
Because that leads to cliques and bullying and social exclusion. :roll:
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Motivational Speaker
by grayman » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:37 pm
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Believe in yourself, make a plan of action, and follow through with it...
If you believe you can do something, then you can .
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Awesome.
Somewhere . . . let me see . . . here is a linkypoo to someone who tries to set the world record for breaking coconuts :
You figured he...
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Attn grammar and usage fanatics:
by RCC » Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:06 pm
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Relevant statute:
...if the person indicted for murder is found by the jury guilty thereof, and if the jury find in their verdict that he or she...
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It sounds to me like the law presupposes that there is only one jury.
Where does the second jury come into it?
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Texas Education
by hammegk » Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:25 pm
Just something for jj to whine about.
The vote was 10 to 5 along party lines, with all the Republicans on the board voting for it. The board,...
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Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution
by grayman » Sun Mar 07, 2010 1:52 am
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Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution. Story here .
Some quotes if your interested:
Two of the best-selling biology textbooks stack the...
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Texas Republicans reject creationist State Board of Education incumbents in primary
Yay for reason!
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My step sons report card in mathematics
by sparks » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:56 am
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He's 11 years old, raised and educated his first 10 years in Russia. He's very well educated/too damned smart (if such a thing is possible....and I...
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That along with lesson-planners incredulous that any student could be that much better at the stuff than them.
At the start of 7th grade, we all had...
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Science!
by Zombie Abdul » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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Censoring Classroom Music. Or not. What would you do?
by 196 » Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:01 pm
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Here is a little challenge for you!
I teach high school math in a remote Cree community. Many of my young students identify with Urban culture and...
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So, you're teaching a new generation of MacFanboy consumers? Are you an industry plant?
Do you let people with MP3 players play their music? Hmm?
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'Manswers' cite = a teachable moment
by 196 » Thu May 14, 2009 11:20 pm
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During a class discussion today one of my grade 12 math students cited the television program “Manswers” (Spike network) as the source for a...
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I also teach science at my school, and just today a fellow teacher said to me, “196, I know you can’t understand this, but some people just don’t...
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Are You an Educator?
by 196 » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:50 pm
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Do you consider yourself an educator? Explain. Do you feel free to promote critical thinking and skepticism in your teaching?
I'll answer the...
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Oh, I'm definitely an educator. :twisted:
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