Awesome! A new charter school pays teachers $125,000/year! The founder spent 15 months picking 8 extraordinary teachers out of 600 applicants. Then he picked low income and poorly performing students, by lottery, to attend his school. He wants to see if a huge salary and excellent teachers will make the difference.

Next Test: Value of $125,000-a- ( Read more... )

Where am I moving next month? 3 medical companies want me. I already have a job offer in Long Beach (near LA), am 90% sure of that job in Boston, and may be offered a job in upstate New York. Company #1 is impatiently waiting for me, and Companies #2 and 3 are doing background checks.... My top choice? Boston/Cambridge. Please HURRY UP! I've also ( Read more... )

I have some of the funniest students:

two girls did the Hannah Montana dance for me,
one panted like a dog and made smacking noises with her mouth,
and another girl dances hip-hop for me, then makes sound effects and croaks like a rusty door hinge.

I mean all this in the nicest way. Hehe...

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UGH. The annually skyrocketing cost of college is one of the biggest outrages holding people back from advancing. What would it take to get universities to actually REDUCE their tuitions? By the time I ever have my own child who is old enough for college, I may have to spend the equivalent of a house to get that child through school. It's damned ( Read more... )

Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better?

Take the Civics Quiz
Woo hoo! My score:"You answered 32 out of 33 correctly - 96.97 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 77.9 ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/teaching/2687517.html (posted on teaching)

My biggest teaching challenge, every week, is dealing with a teenager who has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).

This page, Teaching Self-Discipline, gave me several excellent ideas to actually use this week with this boy ( Read more... )

Wow! Ever since I posted about the Craigslist tutor scam, I've had at least 24 different tutors and teachers reply to me, saying they had met the same experience. Awful. :(

My blog is highly ranked in Google, so if you search for "Craigslist tutor scam" there, you first hit this story from the Berkeley Parents Network, then my own post ( Read more... )

I just sent this note to Craigslist ( Read more... )

So true and worth remembering every day.

How to Be a Genius (New Scientist ( Read more... )

I posted this on med_school. Can anyone help me ( Read more... )