Thursday, January 29, 2009

Regents Week Ruminations

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It's Regents week and I've got a couple of things on my mind. A couple of years ago, my school changed its policy on how to handle S...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Testing, 1 - 2 - 3 . . .

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I'm sure I've covered this ground before in one way or another, but I was thinking about something today. A lot of people, of all ag...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Antonymous

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I've been trying for years to find, or think of, an antonym for the word resourceful . Dictionaries and thesauri are not much help in th...
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Saturday, December 6, 2008

The Secret of NIMH

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I'd like to start this post with a question for the two or three people who read this blog: What percentage of the population, would you...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Dishin' on Tenure

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One of my favorite blogger/commentators, Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic , blogs here about teacher tenure. Teachers respond here . Quality...
Monday, November 3, 2008

Election Eve Ruminations

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Is it me, or does it seem that as this interminable 2008 Presidential race draws to its long-awaited and highly-anticipated conclusion, that...
Saturday, November 1, 2008

The Internet, circa 2008

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Can we please, finally, once and for all, get rid of this ridiculous notion that it is still somehow unreasonable, in the year 2008, for tea...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Trousers in Conflagration

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I really used to enjoy Open School. I enjoyed meeting my students' parents and talking with them, sharing my philosophy of education and...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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Throughout my eleven years of teaching, I have been consistently astonished by students' staggering inability to follow even the simples...
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Saturday, June 7, 2008

CELL PhONES 4 JESUS, Redux

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In having my students read and study the decision in Price v. N.Y. City Bd. of Educ. , 2007 N.Y. Slip. Op. 27214, 16 Misc. 3d 543; 837 N.Y.S...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Mark the Date

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Today I finally received the first of what are sure to be many similar inquiries in the coming two-plus weeks until classes end. One of my s...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Sorry, but I can't take it anymore...

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I never wanted to inject politics into this blog; there are far too many blogs out there dedicated to that topic, and far too many nut jobs ...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Twenty Questions: The Full Quiz

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Here's a copy of the 20-question "common-sense" quiz I give students at the beginning of the school year. For entertainment pu...
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Friday, May 9, 2008

Plagiarism

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Well, this one was inevitable... A couple of weeks ago while I was checking notebooks, I discovered that a student had copied his entire not...
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