A four-year-old boy was suspended from school for sexual harassment–of a teacher’s aide:
A letter from La Vega school district administrators to the student’s parents said that the boy was involved in “inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment” after he hugged the woman and he “rubbed his face in the chest of (the) female employee” on Nov. 10.
Must be education majors.
Germany is going to jail people for video game violence. Will they also send them off to reeducation camps?
Expect some loony legislator to attempt to do the same thing here.
Rick Brookhiser has an alternative plan to Jim Baker’s–kill the enemy.
That’s been my position for years, and Andrew Ferguson agrees, in this piece on the miserable state of math education in the US:
Mr. Levine’s research shows that even the students themselves know how weak their programs are. Sixty-two percent of ed-school alumni say their training didn’t prepare them to “cope with the realities of today’s classrooms.” Surveys show that school principals agree.
What’s to be done? A constructive fellow, Mr. Levine spends considerable time showing what works in the nation’s exemplary education schools. There are some. The examples are so compelling they just might shame other universities into following their lead, removing a major obstacle to educational improvement in America.
Education schools, for example, shouldn’t treat “education” as a major in itself. Good education schools, Mr. Levine finds, require their students to master a given subject
Is the end of the Euro in sight? I’m actually surprised that it’s lasted this long.
Go give your best wishes to the fun and funny Cathy Seipp (and her daughter Maia), who has a not-so-fun-and-funny problem–she has been fighting a long battle with lung cancer, but is still hanging in there, and still blogging.
Jane Galt writes about speed reading. I’m a fast reader also, and find it frustrating and painful to have to read something aloud–the baud rate is just too low.
Iowahawk has dredged up the first draft of Kofi Annan’s deranged US-bashing speech.
First, in today’s world we are all responsible for each other’s security. Against such threats as nuclear proliferation, climate change, global pandemics or terrorist accountants plotting UN audits from their safe havens in failed superpowers, no nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over others, and their private financial records. Only by working together can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves, and perhaps a nice comfortable villa in Switzerland. Let
“Neo” has some troubling thoughts on the nature of twenty-first-century warfare, defining what winning is, and whether we’re capable of doing what must be done to win.
With Pinochet now in the grave, Vladimir Dorta republishes his 2003 historical essay on Chile and the fantasies of the left.