November 2011
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WatchYench doing Mentos experiment…
July 2011
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February 2011
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WatchFriday: sociology class at 3:03pm…
May 2010
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Student Growth, Teacher Evaluations
So the uproar seems muted now. I thought it would be a little louder. Perhaps most teachers think this will go away all on its own.
The issue: How are teacher’s evaluations tied to student progress? But this needs to be properly divided into its components. First, the matter of teacher evaluations.
Teachers should be evaluated based partly on effectiveness. This doesn’t seem to need...
February 2010
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RIF (or RIP to Kindlegarten)...
Reading is fundamental. Please.
I’ve really grown aware of the gaps in skill levels lately of the students I teach. In so many ways so many of them are pretty savvy. But less than 20% are reading at grade level for 11th grade, and to think that upwards of 60% I’ve had as students either in 9th, or 10th or both previous grades (**because I’ve used to teach both World History and...
December 2009
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Getting closer to our food... →
Green has come to Baltimore in many ways. Down the street from where I live a group of neighbors started an urban gardening project. The farmer’s markets downtown and near Hopkins are thriving. Trees are being planted. Recycling has been stepped up.
I encounter often during teaching about the history of farming in the United States and economics in general a lack of connection between...
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade →
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History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web →
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Cotton is King
One would suppose that Cotton led the antebellum agricultural sector in the South, but that is not the case.
While occupying an almost mythic place in the literature of the period, cotton was responsible for the dramatic rise in fortunes for many large and small planters, both the total yield and the number of acres was actually far subordinate to other staple crops: namely corn and wheat....
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Shorpy Historic Photo Archive →
This site is pretty incredible. An excellent photo archive that can be searched and or browsed for historical pleasure. Really.
A new blog...
I’ve tooled around with several other sites, namely “Blogger” and have never really kept going with it…here’s a next attempt, and I think this site— Tumblr— has got a nice and simple interface, plus is easier to customize. We’ll see if inspiration takes hold.
Depth, Span, Relevance