The Education Wonks
Looks good! I just got a linking post up on my blog and I'll ping you in a minute or two!
Thanks for the link. One small correction, though: the results on the precalc tests were entirely expected. In fact, I'm pretty confident I'll see similar ones next test.
"Science And Politics has a piece about an alternative to the "back to basics" trend that classroom teachers are currently enduring. (The post is not new, but the message is fresh.)"
The message doesn't seem fresh to me at all.
It's the same anti-intellectual pablum "progressive" (now constructivist) educationists have been peddling for the last hundred years.
See Left Back by Diane Ravitch for a history of this "fresh" idea.
No, no, no, no, no.
That is Houston, Texas-by-the-grace-of-God.
Teaching in California would be too much of a commute from my home a couple of blocks from galveston Bay. 
A slip of the key. 
Thanks for adding my Ed Code article to your second carnival.
Thanks for the booth in your carnival. My blog has had over 85 visits today !
Thanks, but it's a team effort. We couldn't do it without a lot of INVALUABLE help from our fellow writers in both the EduSphere and the Larger Sphere that were kind enough to link to us and get the word out.
My attack on the Science And Politics offering [It's the same anti-intellectual pablum "progressive" (now constructivist) educationists have been peddling for the last hundred years.] triggered an angry response from the afore-mentioned site.
I am considering commenting on it on my blog. instructivist.blogspot.com
I will never understand why constructivists feel compelled to operate under a false-dichotomy compulsion.
Why should the choice be either basics and or critical thinking? Why not both?
You can't do thinking -- critical or otherwise -- without something to think about.
My post is FOR both basics and critical thinking. I just have a beef at what passes for "basics" these days, and the way those "basics" are taught in isolation from critical thinking, thus ineffectually. The Three Ss (as opposed to rote-learned Three Rs) ARE basics COUPLED to critical thinking.
"My post is FOR both basics and critical thinking. I just have a beef at what passes for "basics" these days, and the way those "basics" are taught in isolation from critical thinking, thus ineffectually. The Three Ss (as opposed to rote-learned Three Rs) ARE basics COUPLED to critical thinking."
You are shifting the meaning of "basics" in midstream. You are for "basics", but then it turns out basics has some idiosyncratic meaning (3Ss)and is not what is commonly understood by the term.
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