In the Basement of the Ivory Tower:
We think of college professors as being profoundly indifferent to the grades they hand out. My own professors were fairly haughty and aloof, showing little concern for the petty worries, grades in particular, of their students. There was an enormous distance between students and professors. The full-time, tenured professors [...]
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The boy is growing up.
His parent-teacher conference, melded with a student-sharing meeting at the school, went really well yesterday. He’s using his daily journal entries for class to expound on personal issues, and more often, daily updates for the teacher on Pablo, Merle, and Doug.
Tomorrow he tests for his yellow belt in Tae Kwon [...]
Three people I know are graduating this month. All three are non-traditional students, and all three are very high achievers I’m proud to know.
1. My babymama friend and cohort in crime is graduating with a full RN nursing degree after four years of slogging it out as a single mother/waitress/bartender/student living on HUD [...]
My State Science Standards Beat Up Your State Science Standards
Published April 5th, 2007 in Education, Indiana, School and Science. 4 CommentsMost of the county is satisfactory, but Indiana is a rock. For once we do something right.
I don’t suppose it had anything to do with my drunken 11th grade geology teacher, but hey.
via Pesky Apostrophe
If y’all were around last year you might remember me writing about the rigamarole I went through with the state of Indiana requiring the Pledge of Alliegance and it’s trickle downward into Ethan’s classroom:
This afternoon when I picked Ethan up from school, his teacher turned from a conversation she was having with another mother, pulled [...]
I owe one of my most pleasant learning experiences to Willi Ninja and this blogger, who was once my professor. Ninja was famous for* voguing, a dance form that was practiced in gay clubs frequented by African-American and Latino men in the 80s and early 90s, both immortalized in the movie Paris is Burning.
Dr. [...]
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