Update: My husband’s response to the notion of “dumbing down” my blog was too pithy not to share:
Yeah. You need to stop writing for 18th century farmers and start writing for 21st century college kids.
Update 2: Dharmesh Shah, the developer of Website Grader, was kind enough to stop by and tell me [...]
February 26, 2007 – 5:12 am
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonprofit education organization “whose purpose is to convey to successive generations of college youth a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society,” recently published the study, The Coming Crisis in Citizenship. The highlights:
A study of 14,000 college freshmen and seniors at 50 [...]
February 1, 2007 – 7:20 am
In 1857, dismayed at incomplete and deficient status of English dictionaries, the Philological Society of London determined a new dictionary was in order. The first edition was published February 1, 1884. From the Oxford English Dictionary website:
The new dictionary was planned as a four-volume, 6,400-page work that would include all English language vocabulary [...]
January 26, 2007 – 4:28 am
Maybe I missed something here, but what is the point, exactly? 901am reports on a story from the Chicago Tribune about how blogging will revolutionize education.
One Principal believes blogging is the future of education. And I tend to agree. The ability to quickly assess a students understanding of the course material is huge. And [...]
January 8, 2007 – 3:00 pm
As part of our studies on Jamestown, we are learning about the education children received. This can hardly be discussed without mention of the hornbook, and what self-respecting homeschooler wouldn’t then go out and make one? For those who aren’t familiar with this, it is essentially a wooden paddle on which a piece [...]
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