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Did corporal punishment save a struggling school? | MetaFilter

control experiments showed that the volunteers weren’t responding first to whole numbers, and then calculating the ratio, but were reacting to the fraction itself (The Journal of Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0651-09.2009).

‘Fraction cells’ found in human brain – life – 21 April 2009 – New Scientist

Harris drew swastikas in his journal; Klebold drew hearts.

10 years later, the real story behind Columbine – USATODAY.com

“Teaching children the basic concept behind math problems was more useful than teaching children a procedure for solving the problems – these children gave better explanations and learned more,” Rittle-Johnson said.

You Do The Math: Explaining Basic Concepts Behind Math Problems Improves Children’s Learning

In an amendment sponsored by board member Barbara Cargill, the board of education voted to replace a requirement to teach the “concept of an expanding universe that originated about 14 billion years ago”.

Universe’s age erased from Texas school science standards – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist

Ray Coleman was shocked Monday on learning his stepson’s Black History Month calendar had declared Thursday Cotton Picking Day at Lillie Burney Elementary and invited students to dress as slaves.

Elementary nixes day for slave costumes | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger

open college textbooks

Flat World Knowledge

Half remembered

Sesame Street – E e

Ever not see something for around 40 years then see it again?

Sesame Street – The ‘O’ Song

printable electronic book, for children 8 years and older, who would like to learn computer programming. It covers the very basics of programming, and uses the Python 3 programming language to teach the concepts.

Jason R Briggs | Snake Wrangling for Kids

CalTech grad student named Virgil Griffith has conducted an interesting (albeit somewhat unscientific) study relating music preferences with SAT scores.

Music That Makes You Dumb? | BeatCrave – Music Blog, MP3 Downloads, Videos, News, Giveaways

The Letter People started as a collection of vaguely trippy drawings by illustrator Elizabeth Callen in the early 70s, but viewers of Midwestern PBS in the 70s and 80s might have learned to read from the Letter People puppet show produced by PBS station KETC in St. Louis.

Words Are Made of Letter People | MetaFilter

While a university professor is teaching, the boy will be listening to and learning from the words but the girl will naturally be listening to the man and learning by osmosis. Naturally docile and possibly possessed of more than sufficient brains, she can always do a good imitation of a good student, especially if she wishes to please a particular male professor.

SSPX.ca: Bishop Williamson’s Letters

on average, female high school science teachers received lower evaluations than their male counterparts even though male and female teachers are equally effective at preparing their students for college.

Gender Bias Found In Student Ratings Of High School Science Teachers

the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact calculation.

MIT OpenCourseWare | Mathematics | 18.098 Street-Fighting Mathematics, January (IAP) 2008 | Home

100 Weirdest Open Courseware Classes That Anyone Can Take | Best Online Colleges

universally “race-blind” admissions and financial aid policies could reduce the number of minorities at the nation’s best higher education institutions by as much as 35 percent, or to about 5 percent of the overall student body.

Universal Ban on Affirmative Action Would Shrink Minority Presence At Top-Tier Colleges by More Than One-Third, Finds Carnegie Mellon Study – Yahoo! Finance

Contemptable Islam.

YouTube – The way Hamas educate the Palestinian children

Shamsia Husseini has gone back to the Mirwais School for Girls in Kandahar. Shamsia is the 17-year-old young woman who had acid thrown into her face in November, to punish her because she wanted an education.

Dhimmi Watch: Afghan girl burned with acid by Taliban returns to school despite risks

Severe behavioural problems in schools affect about 7% of 9-15 year olds and have been on the increase for the past 30 years. Previous studies have shown that individuals with severe conduct problems place a significant burden on society

Behavioral Difficulties At School May Lead To Lifelong Health And Social Problems