Education Information, Our back to school ritual involves Back-to-School shopping. Every year (this was our 6th year) my daughters Heidi, now 11 and Megan, now 9 and our next door neighbor/big sister/babysitter/who has known the girls since day one, Amanda, who is now 17 and I go shopping. This isn’t just shopping we turn it [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2010’
Information, evaluation and accountability
Education Information, Get ready to see a cheer from those who oppose any type of student data used to evaluate teachers after a report by the Economic Policy Institute is released late Sunday. The report titled, “Problems with the use of student test scores to evaluate teachers,” is already being heralded by anti-test groups like [...]
How Massage Therapy Reduces Doctor Visits
Education Information, Numerous studies have confirmed the efficacy of massage therapy for the treatment of patients with mild or severe disease. Sarasota and Bradenton, FL massage spas have long adapted the idea to use massage therapy as complementary treatment of illness, and an alternative to drugs. Massage therapy is part of medicine for hundreds of [...]
Calcium carbonate and climate change
Education Information, What links sea urchins, limestone and climate change? The common thread is calcium carbonate, one of the most widespread minerals on Earth. UC Davis researchers have now measured the energy changes among different forms of calcium carbonate, from its messy noncrystalline forms to beautiful calcite crystals that could lock away carbon underground for [...]
Loco control
Education Information, Defeat often begets a scapegoat. In the wake of the twice-short Colorado application to R2T, this has now solidified: the judges were “perplexed by local control” which led to a lack of objectivity. This is a familiar refrain — them pointy-headed Eastern elites jest don’t git the way things work out West, what [...]