Archive for February, 2010
Clearly thinking is not a requirement for school management
Suit: Pa. school spied on students via laptops – Yahoo! News A federal lawsuit accuses a suburban Philadelphia school district of spying on students at home through school-issued laptop webcams. I’m trying to envision this. How did it happen that the school issued laptops, someone put software on them that allowed the school to access [...]
But no guarantees about course availability
Possible 5-year limit to get UT bachelor’s degree | AP Texas News | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle A task force on Tuesday recommended requiring students at the University of Texas to complete their bachelor’s degrees in 10 semesters or five years So do you think that means that the university will start reporting it’s four [...]
Giving them what they want
EducationNews.org – A Global Leading News Source – Five “Honorees” of Bunkum Awards Announced for their Contributions to Sub-Par Education Research In an effort to help education policy makers separate the wheat from the chaff, expert third party reviews are provided by the Think Tank Review Project, a collaboration of the Education and Public Interest [...]
Or maybe their just lazy?
Now the article shows pictures of what I assume are brain scans but no where does it say that’s what they did. In other words, maybe the brain hasn’t been rewired but the expectations lowered? EducationNews.org – Internet rewiring youngsters’ brains A survey designed to examine the internet’s impact on the brain examined how 100 [...]