Published by Brunsell on 19 Sep 2009 at 08:36 pm
Web Highlights (weekly)
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The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator - Create your own fun newspaper - fodey.com
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The Newspaper Clipping Generator
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The world’s ocean surface temperature was the warmest for any August on record, and the warmest on record averaged for any June-August (Northern Hemisphere summer/Southern
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New Media, New School Year . . . and a New Resource | Edutopia
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We want to help you make the most of the latest technologies and innovative ways to use them as we settle into the 2009-10 school year, so we’ve put together a brand new free resource (PDF) for you: Ten Top Tips for Teaching with New Media.
Full of succinct and practical ways to prepare our students for 21st century success, this guide will help you deliver the relevant and meaningful education that all students deserve.
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Dr. Gardner warns that a failure to encourage a sense of altruism amongst Americans could signal the end of the US as a moral leader for the world.
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Living in Dialogue: An Urban Teacher Tells us Why She Must Leave
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There need to be fewer bodies in the classroom at one time. Math and English classes have reduced class sizes (at the most 20) because our country and state have deemed them more important subjects than history or science.
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“I admit I’m being heretical,” said Richard M. Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the university. “But it’s not that we’re producing too few math and science teachers. It’s that we’re losing too many.”
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Mr. Ingersoll and his research partner, David Perda, calculate that colleges and universities are producing 2½ times more math and science teachers than schools require to replace those who are retiring.
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Yikes. The solutions sound familiar. Improving working conditions, mentoring and supporting new teachers, offering better pay, managing student discipline.
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Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’ - Telegraph
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Charles Darwin film ‘too controversial for religious America’
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Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian
perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as “a
racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder”.
His “half-baked theory” directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led
to “atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering”,
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That’s what we’re up against. In 2009. It’s amazing,” he said.
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“Charles Darwin is, I suppose, the hero of the film. But we tried to make
the film in a very even-handed way. Darwin wasn’t saying ‘kill all
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Early reviews have raved about the film. The Hollywood Reporter said: “It
would be a great shame if those with religious convictions spurned the film
out of hand as they will find it even-handed and wise.”
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