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Substitute's teaching job magically disappears!

This is teacher appreciation week, Tuesday is National Teacher Day. I sometimes wonder if education administrators mis-hear the announcement, and think it is teacher depreciation week. In Land-o-Lake… more »

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Substitute's teaching job magically disappears! — 5 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 days ago: This is teacher appreciation week, Tuesday is National Teacher Day. I sometimes wonder if education … more »

Tags: Education, Rampant stupidity, Teaching

Education spending, per pupil, apples to apples — 3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 week ago: Utah rejected education vouchers last November, so the release from the Census bureau at the first o … more »

Tags: Classroom size, Economics, Education, Education reform, Education spending, Education success, Government, Politics, Public Education

Dangers of creationism: Synapse shutdown — 10 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 week ago: One of the ultimate defenses of creationism, once you’ve demonstrated that there is no science … more »

Tags: accuracy, Bogus history, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Education, ethics, Evolution, Free Press, History Revisionism

Ben Stein busted for Godwin's law violation — 9 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 1 month ago: Godwin’s law predicts, reductio ad Hitlerum explains. And Vox Day explains it doesn’t … more »

Tags: Creationism, intelligent design, Rampant stupidity, Science, War on Science

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, Education quality, Evolution, Literature, Politics, Public Education, State school boards

Creationists make stealth bid to takeover Texas education board — 19 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: Sane members of the Texas State Board of Education hold a slim majority over scripture-at-any-cost-i … more »

Tags: accuracy, Campaigns, Creationism, ethics, Politics, TAKS, Texas, textbooks, War on Science

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, Education quality, History, Justice, Politics, Teaching, Technology in the Classroom

Embarrassing lure of creationism — 207 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 2 months ago: You know the syndrome: Someone is caught in a scandal relating to sex, and then they take an offer t … more »

Tags: accuracy, Biology, Creationism, plagiarism, Public Education, Rampant stupidity, Religion, Science, Textbook Selection

Choose wisdom, choose science: Sandefur savages TEA position against evolution — 1 comment

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Must government agencies be “neutral” between science and non-science, between evolution … more »

Tags: Biology, Creationism, Evolution, intelligent design, junk science, Law, Politics, Public Education, Religion

Moment of silence legal, not enforced — 3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Adding legal irony to the Texas legislature’s running from education problems in the state, a … more »

Tags: Education, Education reform, First Amendment, Religion, school prayer, Texas Lege

BBC's Horizon: Intelligent design a threat to science — 5 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 3 months ago: Greg Laden’s Blog noted the program on intelligent design from Horizon, a BBC Two series somew … more »

Tags: Creationism, Darwin, Evolution, intelligent design, Religion, Science, War on Science

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, Education quality, ethics, Evolution, Psychology

A Warren Chisum special: Bill gives Texas kids "right" to Bible classes — 8 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: Cleaning up the mess left by the Texas Lege: Texas kids need help on history, Texas history, math, … more »

Tags: Education quality, Literature, Molly Ivins' Ghost, Rampant stupidity, TEKS, Texas, Texas Lege

Texas' face should be creationism red — 5 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 4 months ago: P. Z. Myers at Pharyngula has a couple of posts that shed light on part of the recent creationism er … more »

Tags: Creationism, Science, Law, Texas Freedom Network, Education quality, Rampant stupidity, War on Science, Separation of Church and State, Texas Citizens for Science

Crazies promise to abandon California public schools? — 3 comments

Ed Darrell wrote 6 months ago: No, the news is not that good, really. It’s not really news, either. WorldNet Daily, an on-l … more »

Tags: Civil Rights, History, Law, Public Education, Rampant stupidity


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