Washington Post Tom Toles: SAT Test: Essay (editorial cartoon) Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Don’t forget the facts: Adjust the new SAT writing section to give accuracy more weight (editorial) Tags: English language arts | K12 instruction | SAT | standardized…
Category: Journal
i am not in bed
It’s 1:30 AM. I am not in bed. Perhaps a random picture of a duck dressed as a pig will help. No. That didn’t fix anything. It’s still 1:30. It’s even later really, and I’m still not in bed. This…
NCTE’s SAT/ACT Report in the News
The report: Good Writing Instruction, Not Testing, Is the Best Preparation for College NYT, May 3 SAT Essay Test Rewards Length and Ignores Errors Washington Post, May 3 Teachers Give New SAT Essay Low Marks Bloomberg.com, May 3 SAT Essay…
Everything Bad Is Good for You reviewed in Time
TIME.com: Children, Eat Your Trash! — May. 09, 2005 “In Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Riverhead Books; 238 pages), the social critic and technologist (Mind Wide Open) makes a thought-provoking…
Taking Stock
Despite the fact that today is Lisa’s birthday and there was much celebration including 3 bouquets of flowers, I managed to get my draft ready for this week’s Ideas Section of the Inbox, which will be published tomorrow’s afternoon. This…
STLtoday.com – Teachers look to computers to critique student essays
x-posted to kairosnews.org Teachers look to computers to critique student essays presents another example of folks ignoring what we know about writing and authentic assessment. For the other side of this argument, see “Automated Scoring Technologies and the Rising Influence…
To Ellen Wittlinger, where ever she is
Darn you, Ellen. You made me cry. I don’t even know how you managed it, but this evening as I was reading the last 30 or so pages of Hard Love (yes, I’m that far behind on reading YA Lit),…
one more
“It’s the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul—to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing.…
from Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
I guess I wasn’t hopeless enough. I searched around for a movie and found Prozac Nation, which is apparently not considered a great movie. Nonetheless, it’s on TV now. I searched around for something the main character said, and found…
not a day
Who knows if that title will work? Technology is not my friend today, so it probably won’t. I have spent most of the last 10 hours trying to get Quicken Mac to Quicken Windows. Had I known when I started…