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for your felicitous viewing. First, a neat animation of the drifting Icelandic ash cloud event. No wonder Europe paused! Eyjafjallajökull and European Airspace Next, the story of a smart and heroic dog, with video! Dog leads Alaska State Trooper to fire An alarming development in the Amazon. (No video here, thank goodness) T. Rex of [...] in which are displayed utterly useless and only marginally-entertaining pages containing an admixture of truth, fantasy, and images. Here’s a idea that could profitably be employed this side of the Atlantic: the Slapometer. Amazing images, as always, from the Big Picture, this time of the Iceland volcano explosion. Poor little pups! So cute! So forlorn! [...] This is a kind of week-end cleanup of bits and bobs of stories on hand. Think of it as Downeast’s really big pile o’ stuff. Clock ticking for union-inspired panel on assessing teachers The recently-passed law allowing student performance to be linked to teacher evaluation — so Maine could/might be able to get Race to [...] Click on picture to link to more indescribable dogginess! Maybe you saw this one already. Why does everything Chicago-related so quickly seem to spin out of control? 25 Chicago Students Arrested for a Middle-School Food Fight. We know that at least one apple and an orange were thrown. What else? The quality of American journalism is declining, clearly, if the article doesn’t answer this [...] Ann Althouse pins Edu-Obama to the wall, deservedly: Should you really stand in front of a big group of middle schoolers and brutally inform that that the minority kids are doing worse? What does that sound like to a kid? It’s especially harsh since he’s expressing concern not for the personal fulfillment of the [...] We’re clearing the catch cache around here afore it gets too smelly ripe mature! There’s some nasty tasty bits for sure! – More on Obama’s speech: Questioning the Patriotism of High School Drop-Outs This is an intriguing passage from last night: And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just [...] Today we offer a collection of bits and bobs from across the universe. These items may be of interest to those following the ups and downs of the educational enterprise. In Afghanistan, girls want to go to school. In spite of the difficulties. Like acid in the face. But if the acid attack against Shamsia [...] MDISchools has moved, reformatted, and (I think) shifted focus a bit. Here’s a link to the new site. It remains an excellent way to keep up on consolidation and other issues affecting education in Maine. Thanks Brian! The impeccable logic of Paul Stearn’s BDN piece (“SAD 4 voters face unfair consolidation consequences“) remains unanswered. [...] |
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