August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
12 posts
“If we were REALLY serious about educational technology, we would do things like…...”
– My opening remarks at the Iowa Education Summit | Dangerously Irrelevant | Big Think (via infoneer-pulse)
Amen.
Report details largest US school cheating scandal →
infoneer-pulse:
A new Georgia state report details the nation’s largest-ever cheating scandal, concluding that half of Atlanta’s schools allowed practices that inflated students’ scores to go unchecked for as long as a decade.
The report reveals that schools turned a blind eye to — or even condoned — teachers who erased wrong answers on test sheets or encouraged students to copy off one...
How the U.S. government uses its media servants to... →
vruz:
by Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com
“The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced. ‘CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites,’ Mr Panetta said in a letter to staff” - BBC, April 9, 2009
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Earlier this week, the truly intrepid investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill published in The Nation one of the...
“So working in a group of 10 people within a large organization feels both right...”
– You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
Paul has a way with words. (via bijan)
lickypickysticky:
so you thought wearing a strapless top with an apron would be a good idea? WRONG.
it looks like you’re hosting this cooking show naked.
Watchthedailywhat:
Before And After of the Day: Dashcam footage of 20th Street in Joplin, MO, from before the devastating EF5 tornado struck is compared with footage shot after the storm damaged an estimated 75% of the city.
[fark.]
9 Reasons to Switch from Facebook to Google+ →
June 2011
22 posts
“My mother, in the ’60s could buy a tomato in the supermarket that had 30 to 40...”
– Barry Estabrook, on the human, nutritional, and environmental tolls of modern tomato farming. (via nprfreshair)
“According to data from the comparable year in a Labor Department survey, U.S....”
– Why U.S. Teachers Work the Most But U.S. Students Stay Average - Business - The Atlantic Wire (via infoneer-pulse)
“Just 13 percent of high school seniors who took the 2010 National Assessment of...”
– Report: Students don’t know much about history - US news - Life - msnbc.com (via infoneer-pulse)
May 2011
1 post
March 2011
10 posts
February 2011
21 posts
