Larry’s Log

I don’t know how this will finally play out but there is a case before the Supreme Court right now, actually it may be two cases, asking for an answer to the question, “Is the use of race to determine admittance to a public grade school (K-12) constitutional?” It looks like there is a very [...]

I’ve been plenty anti-European when it comes to people talking about the way things are done in Europe. It isn’t so much that I’m down on the Europeans, I’m just tired of hearing about a lot of the social policies they enact over there as being the best thing since sliced bread when I don’t [...]

I get tired of all the taunting after a while. You know, all the news reports telling us how much American kids suck at geography. Well, it isn’t just American kids. Japanese kids suck at the subject also.

It wasn’t only small countries that didn’t register, however.
Takizawa said that some students couldn’t find the United [...]

In a comment to the original post Dan points us to the Steven’s Creek Parents website. Yeah, there really is more to the story.

Rubber bands have been banned from Young Middle Magnet School of Mathematics, Science & Technology in Tampa, Florida. It seems some kids have been hurt by the projectiles kids with rubber bands naturally set loose. I can commiserate the problems the school must be facing what with lawsuits over the slightest of injuries and [...]

I’m hoping that one of my Bay Area friends can shed some light on the Cupertino school banning the Declaration of Independence. There has to be more to this than is being reported.

Doc Searls has some interesting things to say about education and testing. The fact of the matter is that tests don’t reveal what a student has learned and taking a test does nothing to teach the subject matter. Unfortunately, testing is the only way educators have found to measure their effectiveness as teachers and judge [...]