that clinking clanking sound

Weird piece in NYT on private schools. Though expensive ($40,000 or so a year), they can't cover their costs by tuition -- donations mu...

A-Y

Every oral-sex seminar, “every masturbation how-to session, every tip I heard on how to stimulate the anus — each of these seemed to be mock...

Dr. Mutti

Was checking in on Twitter with the usual shame and self-loathing, when what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a retweet from Anatol S...

baby it's cold inside

BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG CHILDREN UNDER CONDITIONS SIMULATING ENTRAPMENT IN REFRIGERATORS Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entr...

et tu, Brute?

I received this email from an eighth-grader: “Listen, I love your work, but seriously? Selling out to the state test? “Also, before my class...

In patriotic duty bound, the Cambridge of Newton adhered to Newton's fluxions, to Newton's geometry, to the very text of Newton'...

talks about talks

The point of academic talk is to try to persuade your audience to agree with you about your research. This means that you need to raise a s...

losing streak

The Khan Academy has just got rid of its popular streak metric.  I woke up this morning in a somewhat ratty frame of mind and decided to soo...

devant les enfants

almost everything we have done over the last two decades in the area of ICT education in British schools has been misguided and largely fut...

pa pa pa PAAAAAAAAA pa

n+1 held a panel discussion at Fordham back in late October last year, a reprise of an earlier discussion of "What we wish we'd kno...

A few years ago, a colleague in another university published a huge book, based on a vast amount of archival research, meticulously docume...

post hoc, ergo propter hoc (not)

... A lot of success stories we hear are despite the system, not because of it, and the sooner we recognize that, the better the chances th...

Newnewspeak

Beyond the warped ingenuity of these Heath Robinson schemes to force ‘free’ competition to happen in closely controlled circumstances, such...

MR had a post on the Khan Academy , had a look at what Salman Khan is doing; this is extraordinary. But no Ancient Greek, I see.  (Arabic, H...

But if it can’t be said exactly how Shakespeare happened, there are contexts that help to throw light. I want to glance at two of them here....

valedictory address

I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot s...

I’ve remarked before that, once I became a practicing scientist, I realized I had taken all of the wrong courses as a student. Although I st...

“There would be a package of seeds for a pumpkin, and there would be a picture with the word ‘PUMPKIN,’” said Blackwell. “That’s how I learn...

Britain deserves the best

Esche stated the case clearly it in an earlier meeting: ‘Reputation has no financial value in this university.’ That isn’t necessarily true ...

could try harder

Black children are being systematically marked down by their teachers who are unconsciously stereotyping them, it has been revealed. Academi...