Archive for the 'Links' Category
September 1, 2008 @ 7:40 am | Filed under: Links
- Hurricane Gustav Twitter Updates - I found Twitter so useful for keeping up to date on the SoCal wildfires last year. Now even more people are on board, so the Gustav tracking is comprehensive.
- Portal to mythical Mayan underworld found in Mexico | Science | Reuters
- SignOnSanDiego.com > Bad airline stories are nothing like this
- EzraKlein Archive | “Uninvited”
- Remember ‘go outside and play?’ - Los Angeles Times - “Increasingly, American children are in a lose-lose situation. They’re forced, prematurely, to do all the un-fun kinds of things adults do (Be over-scheduled! Have no downtime! Study! Work!).” Well, not ALL American kids, thank goodness. But I too have mourned the loss of the freedom to roam the neighborhood that my friends and I knew as children.
August 24, 2008 @ 6:15 am | Filed under: Links
(New del.icio.us links appear in my sidebar daily, but I thought I’d round up the past week’s worth here in one post.)
- Children’s knitting group turfed from library under new craft ban - Sounds like Mary Gildersleeve’s book, Great Yarns for the Close-Knit Family, would be just the thing to solve the problem!
- Protect Our Kids from Preschool - WSJ.com - “Why don’t preschool gains stick? Possibly because the K-12 system is too dysfunctional to maintain them. More likely, because early education in general is not so crucial to the long-term intellectual growth of children. Finland offers strong evidence for this view. Its kids consistently outperform their global peers in reading, math and science on international assessments even though they don’t begin formal education until they are 7.”
- Don’t Get Too Comfortable, California « Just Enough, and Nothing More - Yup, I’ve been saying pretty much the same thing ever since the ruling came out.
- RPO — A Time-Line of Poetry in English - HT: Ambleside Online
- StudentNewsDaily.com - Make sense of current events! - Current events site for kids. HT Lindafay at Higher Up and Further In. Jane has been really enjoying reading the articles here and her visits to the site have sparked some great discussions.
- About That ADHD Serving a Purpose Thing - Throwing Marshmallows - Journal - Michael Phelps, ADHD, Homeschooling. HT: Chris O’Donnell.
July 23, 2008 @ 6:00 am | Filed under: Links
- Homeschool Changes in California - ISPs are now PSPs « Just Enough, and Nothing More - Doesn't affect me since I file as a private school myself, but FYI for those who use ISPs. "The groups are recommending that California homeschoolers make a change from using the descriptive phrase “Private School Independent Study Program” (and its v
July 22, 2008 @ 8:00 pm | Filed under: Links
- Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes! | Dizzy Dee - HT: Chris O'Donnell
July 20, 2008 @ 4:00 am | Filed under: Links
- Mariposario: Guess I’m a renegade parent - Deb Ross’s followup post to the math article I linked below.”It’s been obvious to the folks at RIT for a while that the math that kids need to succeed in math and science in college is not what kids are currently being taught by the New York State Standards.”
UPDATED: Deb’s husband, a math professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, adds his commentary on the CNN Math Wars article in a second post. - Top 10 food scenes in children’s literature | Top 10s | guardian.co.uk Books -
July 19, 2008 @ 6:03 am | Filed under: Links
- Frustrated parents sneak ‘old math’ to kids - CNN.com - “They call it the Math Wars: The debate, at times acrimonious, over which way is best to teach kids math. In its most black-and-white form, it pits schools hoping to prepare kids for a new world against reluctant parents who feel that the traditional way is best and that their kids are being shortchanged.” (See comments for a link to a very interesting blog post on this topic.)
- The Yale Law Journal - “Home Schooling” in California - Yale Law Journal report on CA homeschooling case: "The views expressed above are consistent with the amicus brief filed by the Department in the Rachel L. case on behalf of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell."
July 12, 2008 @ 4:01 am | Filed under: Links
- Washington Times - McCain adviser talks of ‘mental recession’ - I take it back–a 2nd link to Wash Times in one week. Phil Gramm says we’re a nation of whiners and fears about the economy are all in our heads/ the media’s fault. HT: Red Cardigan
- EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect - “Folks are, rightfully, worried about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which are tanking so rapidly that there’s talk of a federal bailout.”
- StumbleVideo - Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire - Amazing artist draws stunningly accurate aerial view of Rome after viewing only once by helicopter. HT: the Grimms.
July 11, 2008 @ 4:03 am | Filed under: Links
- Westfield Comics: What Does a Comic Book Editor Do? - "Dick Giordano once told me that he thought that editing comic books is one of the most difficult editing jobs in existence. Not only do you have to be good at knowing everything that a good prose or text editor knows, you also have to understand art and
- Celebrity neighbors Begley, Nye carry eco-grudge - Yahoo! News - Bill Nye and Ed Begley are having a friendly showdown to see whose carbon footprint can be smallest.
July 10, 2008 @ 4:01 am | Filed under: Links
- the scent of green bananas: and now for a different kind of fish food. - Well, that's one way to get rid of your dry skin. :::shudder:::
- Senate approves wiretap bill pushed by Hatch - Salt Lake Tribune - I am sick about this.
July 9, 2008 @ 4:00 pm | Filed under: Links
- Cabaret Brewed Chocolate - Questions & Answers - "And contrary to some popular belief, cocoa beans contain only small amounts of caffeine. Instead, they are very high in theobromine, a cousin of caffiene with significantly different effects. Theobromine is a gentler, longer-lasting stimulant that lacks
- Foster child denied shot at new liver - 07/08/2008 - MiamiHerald.com -
