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experiments for kids

Scientific American has a number of experiments kids, sometimes with help from a parent can do.  Ages 6 - 12.

 

republicans don't like education

A shift in Republican attitudes towards higher education 

Perhaps they want their kids to stay uncompetitive so they won't; leave or...?

a tip of the hat to Jim

 

 

 

 

 

teaching children genocide is okay

Not that many weren't hearing it in their classrooms, but Schoolhouse Rock was an education cartoon that primarily aired in the 70s reflecting and reinforcing views of history.  This one, sweeping the hard parts under the rug in the bicentennial year of 1976, is okay with genocide.

ah lebensraum!

(a tip of the hat to John).

lines vs dots

A history of reading and the blind - a fascinating 99% Invisible show.  audio and transcript.

 

 

alaska is aiming at winning the crown

For the worst education in the US with a proposed 41% cut to higher education.

a tip of the hat to Brain

harvard's 86% admission rate

For athletes - real or make believe -  at least. 

A toxic mixture of several factors.

 

the failure of the education system

Teaching critical thinking should be central - but this (via The New York Times)

 no wonder we get Trumped. 

 

talibama

Female oppression in Alabama

a tip of the hat to Bjarne for the link and state re-naming suggestion

 

measles and the one percent

When parents of means believe in woo ...

on a type of anti-vaxxer (pro disease?) and more

 

 

another chef takes a crack at better school lunches

Dan Giusti from Noma is trying to improve school lunches in the Bronx.  (via The New York Times)