Archive for the 'Teaching' Category
The fine folks at Justia (my favorite legal website) yesterday announced a new free service that contains information on recently filed federal civil cases.
From the press release:
“The Federal District Court filings are categorized by State, Federal
District Court and Legal Practice Area, and include the presiding judge
[...]
As the father of a sixth-grader who attends (and loves) a charter school, I’m in favor of school choice. But this article makes me think that maybe too much choice is not necessarily the best thing for these kids.
Home Schoolers Content to Take Children’s Lead – New York Times
As the number of children who are [...]
As a prof who has been teaching online for eight years now, I always love these kinds of articles where the writer suddenly “discovers” this thing known as learning online. From today’s Washington Post:
Angela
Bostic will get her MBA in August from the University of Maryland
University College, part of a dual master’s degree she is pursuing. [...]
Excellent article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education by Linda Kerber, President of the American Historical Association, about the importance of preserving our nation’s historical record. In the article she discusses three recent incidents where the government has withdrawn information that was previously accessible to the public, and the impact that this will have [...]
