I hope, someday, that our nation will end it's perception that children are disposable. For all of the rhetoric we chronically fail children from our education systems, to our social service systems, to our juvenile justice systems. It's as if we wish that children would just go away.
- Glenn Moses
News of the Weird: In New York City, prep courses for 3-year-olds for admission to "prestigious" kindergartens! - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Commercial test-preparation courses are already popular for applicants to top colleges and graduate schools, and recently also for admission to prestigious private high schools and grade schools. Now, according to a November New York Times report, such courses and private coaching are increasingly important for admission to New York City's high-achiever public kindergartens, even though the applicants are just 3 and 4 years old. Basic coaching, which may cost more than $1,000, includes training a child to listen to an adult's questions and to sit still for testing. Minimum qualification for top-shelf kindergartens are scores at the 90th percentile on the Olsat reasoning test and the Bracken School Readiness knowledge test. [New York Times, 11-21-09]
- Glenn Moses
"The traditional classroom, where an instructor assigns a textbook, is heading toward obsolescence." Somebody remind me to come back and look at this article in five (10, 20, ...) years.
- Glenn Moses
It turns out the quest, for me, of having a machine that dual boots Windows 7 and Ubuntu isn't as easy as I want it to be because Windows 7 hijacks your boot loader. This walk through might be the solution.
- Glenn Moses
This forum is about getting the media filter to not work for the MP3 filter but works for all filters. The code must be appended to the link inside the quotes. For example: <a href="http://awesome.com/video..."> for this to work.
- Glenn Moses