tingilinde

the voter response to the republican war on education

 

 

                                                                

                                                                                                                    (via 538)

 

more fun from physics girl

more on legacy admissions

It's always right to be very careful when you choose your parents.  A varsity of reasons - including college admissions.

 

phys ed

a note from Zeynep

 

I just got a PR pitch—Physical education is cut from schools so put an Alexa in the classroom to "instruct" kids to move around. Yeah, sure, let's put a commercial surveillance device to classrooms while gutting funding... for poor kids. Betcha not gonna happen in rich schools.

 

an intro to general relativity

Mike points to a mostly non-technical (at least no math) piece illustrating a central point of general relativity.  Going beyond the rubber sheet models a bit.  Both satisfying and unsatisfying, but worth a look if you're interested in this sort of thing.

 

sputnik and pssc

The launch of Sputnik on the 4th of October in 1957 ignited a large effort to reform science and math education in the US.  Physicists had already been working on it and the Physical Science Study Committee was set up - largely at MIT - to produce books, lab exercises and films.  Efforts followed in chemistry and biology.  The math effort largely failed.

Here are some (all?) of the PSSC films.

 

john urschel goes pro

What happens when a pro football player has a serious interest in something reasonably academic .. like math.  I've had posts on John Urschel before, but here's a good interview.  You might be interested in the linked talk too.

 

 

 

rice now costs less

Unless you're wealthy ..  a major change in tuition and room charges. (via NPR)

 

 

 

over scheduled kids

Doctors are prescribing playtime

the problem of purpose to everything. A good way to kill creativity

 

wrecking education in arizona

Arizona hasn't been doing well in education these days.  PZ comments on science education.