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Diversity Study A ScienceDaily article tells of a British study that has shown "children as young as 5 have been shown to understand issues regarding integration and separation." In Diversity In Primary Schools Promotes Harmony, Study Finds, researchers from the Universities of Sussex and Kent are reported to have shown "that the ethnic composition of primary schools has a direct impact on children's attitudes towards those in other ethnic groups and on their ability to get on with their peers." Filesharing Textbooks Randall Stross has an article in the New York Times that may produce a devilish grin on the face of anyone who has dealt with college bookstores. First It Was Song Downloads, Now It’s Organic Chemistry tells of "the angriest group of captive customers to be found anywhere," college students. And it's all about the price of textbooks. Stross tells about the increase in college textbooks now available on filesharing sites and publishers' responses. And while sharing copyrighted material is, well, illegal, his comment about students' motivation "create and give away digital copies" may well be understood by any of us who've dealt with college bookstores: "the sweet satisfaction of revenge." Send Feedback to |
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Obama the Professor Jodi Kantor has an interesting look at Barack Obama's teaching years at the University of Chicago Law School in Teaching Law, Testing Ideas, Obama Stood Apart. Wind Techs Needed An Associated Press article by Blake Nicholson caught my eye last weekend. Students get hired to capture the breeze tells of the need for trained wind techs to maintain the rapidly growing number of wind turbines in this country. Blake relates that community colleges in North Dakota and other states have added wind technician training, but sometimes have difficulty retaining students until graduation, as companies hire the students after only a few months of training. Navajo-English Textbook It's interesting how you can learn a lot along the way to a posting. I had noticed an interesting Associated Press article by Felicia Fonseca, New Mexico first state to adopt Navajo textbook. I held up today's posting to take time to write a friend, Jim Crittenden, who teaches at Kayenta Middle School on a Navajo reservation in Arizona. Jim filled me in a bit on the importance of such a text:
Fonseca also relates in her article that "research has shown that students who master their native language often have an easier time understanding more abstract concepts in the English language." And it seems that any time I write Jim, I get back far more than I gave. He sent along a link to Debbie Reese's blog, American Indians in Children's Literature. Reese, a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, tracks "perspectives of indigenous peoples in children's books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society-at-large" on her unique blog. Getting back to Jim, at one time he ran a Mac lab using a Power Mac 7200 running AppleShare 3 as his server and an incredible collection of antique Macs. He now maintains around 85 seven year-old iBooks. (If you have some good surplus iBook batteries you're willing to donate, you might .) A Teacher's Questions about Merit Pay High school teacher Kate Applebee has a good letter to the LA Times about the presidential candidates and merit pay in Obama and McCain miss the mark on education. I think she asks a lot of the questions the rest of us are thinking about merit pay. Have a great weekend!
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