Trying to catch up on financial paperwork this evening, so I don’t have much to post. But here’s some mindless junk, some of which was inspired by my thoughts as I went for a run this afternoon.
1) As I was running, I started thinking about dogs. It might have been I heard one […]
Just got back from the North Carolina Homeschool Conference (more on that in a later post). Mom and Dad kept the daughter up in Avery County, NC, near Grandfather Mountain while we attended the conference in Winston-Salem.
This morning, we decided to do the tourist thing on Grandfather before heading back to Cullowhee. […]
The Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences (ACMS) is having their Bienniel Conference next week (June 1-4) in Huntington, IN. If I weren’t tied up with Department Head duties, it would probably be a worthwhile trip. Heck, I could even stop by Franklin College near Indianapolis while I was out there to […]
There’s an interesting article at Insider Higher Ed entitled “Toward a Transparent Classroom”, written by Jefferson Flanders of New York University. I think it has interesting insights on the future of education in a technological and interconnected world.
Professor Flanders begins by relating a recent teaching experience and his subsequent epiphany. A student […]
In this morning’s Asheville Citizen-Times was a story about a math question on our state seventh-grade test. I couldn’t find an online version from our local paper, but here’s a link to the story in Greensboro’s News-Record. A summary from the story:
On an end-of-grade test this month, seventh-graders had to calculate the average […]
Great column in Thursday’s Mobile Register by Quin Hillyer (hat tip: Southern Appeal - actually Hillyer himself, who writes for SA). I’m not crazy about the title of the piece (”National media witch hunt against the religious right”), but I think he hits the important points, mostly that the influence of the religious […]
I’m planning to tear myself away from the tube this summer and try to do some reading. I’ve already completed a couple of fiction pieces: Sons of Fortune by Jeffrey Archer and Prey by Michael Crichton. Light and entertaining reading.
Now it’s time to move on to more edifying fare. I’ve got three […]
I’ve just read through the new Carnival of Education, and I’m glad I did. I’ve received my encouragement (and conviction) for the week.
You sometimes wonder as a parent if you’re making a difference. Spunky at SpunkyHomeSchool no longer needs to worry. Her 14-year-old son has just given her new hope that the […]
The Discovery Channel plans one of those stupid reality TV votes on the greatest Americans (a rather blatant rip-off of the BBC’s Greatest Britons contest). The list is pretty appalling, with the vast majority being current celebrities who are HIGHLY unlikely to stand the test of time.
I finally had a chance to read my student evaulations. Whereas many departments use numeric evaluations (bubble forms and such), our department still relies on narratives. I always tell my students that I take their comments seriously, which I do, so I was a little hesitant to write about them. But when […]