Went to the BWAC art show today. Some nice pieces, some eh. Not doing an art review, but something that caught my attention was three specific pieces. Three paintings, each of which incorporated a few words. And while the pieces were fairly well done, I was very surprised that they all had misspelled words in them. Typos are annoying in books and ( Read more... )

I've been listening to this story with half an ear for the last two weeks, but it pushed itself to the forefront today. This is the story of the Covenant Girls High School in Dallas, Texas, and how their basketball team beat Dallas Academy on 13 January by a score of 100-0. Today, Dallas's CBS TV reports on Coach Grimes's firing. Apparently, his ( Read more... )

The New York Times has this piece in today's edition: "Fewer Children Entering Gifted Programs" by Elissa Gootman and Robert Gebeloff. It makes me wonder if New York City's gifted programs are supposed to be an engine for social engineering, a way to make school enrollment "fair" or "equal", or if they exist to give additional educational ( Read more... )

This article in today's New York Times talks about gifted education in New York City. Specifically, it talks about the mayor and the Board of Education's efforts to make the City's gifted programs "more diverse ( Read more... )

Yet another instance of teaching our children something we really shouldn't be teaching them. In this case, The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that "a student may be disciplined for expressive conduct, even conduct occurring off school grounds, when this conduct 'would foreseeably create a risk of substantial disruption within the school ( Read more... )

I've been wondering about this one since I first heard about it this morning. The New York City Board of Education is going to open a public school dedicated to teaching the Arabic language and culture. And the woman who will be its principal is quoted in this New York Times' article as saying that ideally, the school would serve an equal mix of ( Read more... )