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Top story for Teacher Appreciation Week: Student donates kidney to teacher

I got some very nice cards, especially those that were hand made, from the heart.  I got a candy bar when I really needed it. This woman got a kidney from a former student.  How could you top that? … more »

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Top story for Teacher Appreciation Week: Student donates kidney to teacher

Ed Darrell wrote 3 hours ago: I got some very nice cards, especially those that were hand made, from the heart.  I got a candy ba … more »

Tags: Education, Good Deeds, Health Care, Heroes, Teaching

Two million minute challenge — 1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 1 day ago: Just over two weeks to graduation, son James is concerned about global competitiveness.  He’s … more »

Tags: Business, capitalism, Economics, Education, Education success, Foreign Affairs, Geography - Economic, Globalization, Higher Education

$1 billion boondoggle: Bush's reading program doesn't work — 1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 1 week ago: From today’s New York Times: By SAM DILLON Published: May 2, 2008 President Bush’s $1 billi … more »

Tags: Education, Education assessment, Education reform, Education spending, Learning, No Child Left Behind Act, Politics, Public Education, Reading

Chairman McLeroy to Texas Hispanics: "Drop dead!"

Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: With evidence mounting that the politically-motivated rewrite of English standards in Texas schools … more »

Tags: Books, Education, Education assessment, Evolution, Literature, Politics, Public Education, State school boards, Texas

Testing boosts memory, study doesn't — 11 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: This is why football players remember the games better than they remember the practices. Is this rea … more »

Tags: Best Practices, Education, Education assessment, History, Learning, Learning styles, Pedagogy, Research, Science

Boost geology, boost science education

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Kevin Padian’s article in February’s GeoTimes urges improvements in geology in textbooks … more »

Tags: Biology, Evolution, Geology, Science, textbooks

Troublemaker: Chat with Checker Finn, March 5 — 1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: With all the irony, implicit and explicit, I will be proctoring a test Wednesday. You, however, woul … more »

Tags: Education, Public Education, Education reform, Testing, Education assessment

Joseph Juran dead at 103

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Anyone in quality control would recognize the name; more people in business will recognize the princ … more »

Tags: Business, Economics, Education, History

Survey results

rlarsen wrote 2 months ago: In this season of “polling” people on candidates and issues, Operation Kids has been polling peo … more »

Tags: Initiative: Children's Issues

Meanwhile, back at the school: Carnival!

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: I always loved school carnivals. The elementary school versions always featured silly games and act … more »

Tags: Anthropology, Education, Education Blogs, History, Justice, Politics, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom, War on Education

Geography revolution, next wave: Ready in your classroom? — 1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Depression presents a serious occupational hazard, moving back and forth between the classroom and b … more »

Tags: Economics, Education, Teaching, technology, Geography - Physical, Geography - Political, classroom technology, Technology in the Classroom, Geography - Economic

America by Air, the promise of on-line history education

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Looking for something else I found the Smithsonian Institution’s on-line history of air passen … more »

Tags: Economics, Travel, History, On-line education, classroom technology, Technology in the Classroom, History museums, Transportation, History images

Creationism isn't science — 111 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: The Waco Tribune published an opinion piece three weeks ago that I should have noted earlier. Trib … more »

Tags: Creationism, Education, Evolution, TEKS, Texas

Struggling schools get struggling teachers — 4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Everyone who knows him thinks highly of him. When the rest of the teachers in the department need h … more »

Tags: Education, Teacher pay, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom, Texas

Boost test performance: Start school later — 4 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Students perform better when schools adjust schedules to accommodate the realities of biology: High … more »

Tags: Education, Public Education, Education spending, Brain development, Brain learning, Testing, Public Health, Education success, Health Care

12 year-old blogger educates . . . — 2 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: How young is too young to blog about education? Our reader, Dr. Pamela Bumsted wrote about a 12 year … more »

Tags: Best Practices, classroom technology, Education Blogs, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom, Weblogs

Why eugenics doesn't work

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Dog and cat breeders, pigeon fanciers, racehorse breeders, and others whose livelihoods depend on th … more »

Tags: Business, business ethics, capitalism, Darwin, Economics, ethics, Evolution, Psychology, Science

Ben Stein, pick up the courtesy phone — 5 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Ben Stein’s movie defending science crackpottery has been delayed in release. In the meantime, … more »

Tags: climate change, Education, Global Warming, Politics, Religion, Science, War on Science

NAS evolution book too technical? — 1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Joe Lapp, from Austin, Texas, posted this review on Amazon.com of the National Academy of Science … more »

Tags: Creationism, Evolution, Science, TEKS, Textbook Selection, History, accuracy, Charles Darwin, Darwin


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