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MORE Bad SAT Advice From ETS 7 Jun 2013 | 05:30 am
No they didn't! (Yes, they did.) Another day, another SAT math Problem of the Day with bad advice for students from the ETS. I just can't figure out why they continue to foist these horrid explanatio...
Won't Get Fooled Again? Reasons to Resist the Common Core 10 Feb 2013 | 02:56 am
"Meet the new boss, Same as the old boss." This morning, Jean Schutt McTavish posted this on several education groups I follow on Facebook: "OK Facebook Friends. I have been asked to brief a mayoral...
What is Constructivism, Really? (And Why Do Educational Reactionaries Have To Lie About It?) 3 Jan 2013 | 03:38 am
Ernst von Glasersfeld, resting What is radical constructivism? It is an unconventional approach to the problems of knowledge and knowing. It starts from the assumption that knowledge, no matter how...
The ETS Says, "Why Make Math Problems Easy?" 23 Dec 2012 | 11:13 pm
Today's SAT Problem of the Day is a true classic, the one that Princeton Review made its bones with. Please remember before answering that this is from a late 1970s SAT (though a student-generated (fr...
More ETS Math "Thinking" 3 Dec 2012 | 01:44 am
Greetings From "Princeton, NJ" Another day, another math SAT Problem of the Day from your friendly Educational Testing Service/College Board (always like to mention that while the ETS has a "Princeto...
The ETS Screws the Pooch Again - Gus Grissom Memorial edition 23 Nov 2012 | 10:02 pm
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom I don't mean to be so hard on the ETS. Really I don't But they have this aggravating habit of doing some really stupid things that burn me up (okay, not as badly as was Gus Gr...
An Open Letter to Barack Obama About Education 7 Aug 2012 | 08:39 pm
Dear Mr. President: I write this on your birthday to wish you the very happiest of days. But I also write to speak to you as a parent, educator, and someone who deeply believes in our democratic heri...
What Makes Johnny (and Charmaine, and. . .) Run? Of Carrots, Sticks, and Education 7 Aug 2012 | 02:24 am
One Way To Motivate Motivation is a rather intriguing topic in the world of education, particularly these days, given all the expert opinions the corporate world is offering to or more often blatantl...
Garfunkel Simonizes the Mathematics CCSS (and I Feel Fine - sort of) 29 Jul 2012 | 06:51 am
Sol Garfunkel Sol Garfunkel has just come out against the CCSS in math, while admitting that he'll also be working to help implement them as effectively as he can. Not in some obscure locale, but in ...
Khan, you bloodsucker! KHAAAAAN! (More musings on the Khan Academy) 24 Feb 2012 | 09:49 am
Why do many well-meaning (and some not-so-well-meaning) people think that the Khan Academy is THE panacea for various woes, perceived and real, in US mathematics education? Perhaps no one has expresse...
