via petewarden.typepad.com Please read the post linked and think about the data we collect on students. How can we make grading a more neutral act? How do we convince others that the ...
- Jim Peterson
"That's still true today. Gathering data is not a neutral act, it will alter the power balance, usually in favor of the people collecting the information." Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmar...
- Jim Peterson
"RUGGED OUTDOORSMAN'S PLACE DRIPPING WITH CASH Excavators in Michigan have unearthed $11,792 in soggy cash from water- filled jars buried by a recluse who lived in a two-room house with no indoor plumbing. "Indian Joe" Cizauskas, who was in his 80s when he died in 1988, "had a hard time with banks" and was also known to stuff money into walls and under floors, said his niece, Rose Kerr. The money, mostly $20 bills, was buried a few feet deep in jars, salt shakers, medicine bottles and a teapot, and some of it "was just a glob, like papier-mache," said Kent County Treasurer John Boerema. The cash was found along with $3,400 in government notes as excavators bulldozed the foundation of the cement-block house just north of Grand Rapids. It will be turned over to his family. For years, Cizauskas spurned developers' offers for a 235-acre tract that he'd owned for more than 40 years. His family sold it in 1991 and it was dedicated last year as a nature preserve. Know how much they got for...
- Jim Peterson