The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Life on Mars? Funding to find answers fades
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/national-international/article/Life-on-Mars-Funding-to-find-answers-fades-3401227.php
I am always a bit on the fence regarding big ticket research projects funded by tax payer dollars (I am not, however, against broad-based support for science via the doling out …
Rick Santorum’s home-school hokum
America’s most famous home-schooler spent three years soaking Pennsylvania taxpayers for his kids’ education
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/26/rick_santorums_home_school_hokum/singleton/
I don’t need other reasons to not like Santorum and almost didn’t bother to read this article (I had already heard …
Stories don’t need morals or messages
A “stupid” test shows that the Puritan ethic lives on. Why do we insist on learning lessons from the books we read?
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/31/stories_dont_need_morals_or_messages/singleton/
Some good stuff on Salon today.
While I am all over …
Can the 1 percent accept “enough”?
The rich can’t stop trying to justify exorbitant salaries for everyone from Wall Street bankers to college coaches
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/10/can_the_1_percent_accept_enough/singleton/
I have always felt that there is a very low value on the upper limit …
Arizona woman off ballot after high court agrees her English isn’t good enough
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/08/arizona-woman-off-ballot-after-high-court-agrees-her-english-isnt-good-enough/?hpt=hp_bn1
While I firmly believe that English should be the official language of these United States (decades ago I was quite flabbergasted to learn it wasn’t already), …
Are high-tech classrooms better classrooms?
Despite the hype over Apple’s new iPad textbooks, there’s little proof that gadgets do much to improve education
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/03/are_high_tech_classrooms_better_classrooms/singleton/
A good friend and I started work on an idea for educational games years ago (we …
The “education crisis” myth
Ignore the media spin. Wages and working conditions — not skills — are the real reasons jobs get outsourced
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/30/the_education_crisis_myth/singleton/
In my experience our educational system is quite dysfunctional and apparently incapable of churning out people …
Birth Control Matters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nita-chaudhary/kathleen-sebelius-plan-b_b_1241653.html
This is a big deal, but the topic has been hijacked by people who have no stake in the matter and want to revert us to a reproductive stone age. I recently read an article in …
The ugly truth about “school choice”
The Koch brothers want you to think the movement’s about racial justice and empowering parents. They’re lying
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/24/the_ugly_truth_about_school_choice/singleton/
I have an early post on the educational industrial complex that was converted from my early …
The New American Divide
The ideal of an ‘American way of life’ is fading as the working class falls further away from institutions like marriage and religion and the upper class becomes more isolated. Charles Murray on what’s cleaving America, …