teaching

Joanne Jacobs nails it: "We need to define ‘career ready’ in a way that will guide high school instruction for the kids who prefer moola moola to boola boola." Read more

Given that my university is beginning a campus-wide program of quantitative scholarship, I find the discussion of "math or stats" going on over at Phi Beta Cons to be particularly interesting: It started with a reference to this Pope Center article… … and was followed by this recommendation for statistics… … which lead to this… Read more

Here’s a neat way to structure math problems.  Why didn’t I think of it? Tip from Joanne Jacobs. Read more

Monsters are monsters, it seems, for want of enough lectures.  Maybe education isn’t the Universal Solution. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Barbara Oakley blows the whistle on federally-funded math and science education schemes.  Not that I’m involved in any of those. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

Some folks aren’t sure about erasing the board after their lectures, others just don’t do it.  While I love Night Hauling’s rant about the downward spiral of adjuncting, I’m baffled by his pointless rudeness to another fellow who’s in the same boat as he is–unless it’s just discipline snobbery It would probably be fair to Read more

…obviously has been redesigned to answer a schools most Frequently Asked Questions: Tip from the Technology Liberation Front. Read more

There are a lot more effective ways to improve education in the developing world than buying kids $100 laptop computers.  Of course, then there aren’t such large government contracts. Tip from Joanne Jacobs. Read more

Bennie Wilson used to grade some of his students’ oral presentations as "less than unacceptable."  Now some Canadian universities are formalizing a similar grade: failure due to dishonesty or cheating. Tip from Joanne Jacobs. Read more

In California, it’s both the students and the teachers.  But now they’re moving to electronic texts.  They’ll probably lick the screen. Read more