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Largest ever lunar impact by meteorite (Washington Post) with a movie of the blast an unexpected and stunning discovery: 4.4-billion-year-old Australian zircon crystals may require rethinking of Earth's formation (U Wisconsin) contrary to current theory, Earth's first continents formed soon after the impact that formed the moon IRIS spots largest solar flare (NASA Goddard) with a movie of the blast Planet-sized exposions on Venus (NASA Goddard) First geologic map of Ganymede (Sky and Telescope) with a rotation movie 360-degree view of Saturn's auroras (Earth & Sky) with a movie More evidence for water flows on Mars (JPL) |
Asymmetric Ti abundance hints at supernova mechanism (Sky & Telescope) map of Cas A contradicts both spherical and bipolar collapse models the oldest star in the universe (Sky & Telescope) with 15 million x less iron than the sun... remarkably, the authors conclude that the ONLY star's predecessor in time was a low-metal, low brightness supernova with a mass of 60 suns Runaway star creates mammoth bow shock 4 c-yrs ahead of star (Spitzer) 1100 km/s speed is sufficient to escape the galaxy |
2 Kepler papers announce 715 new planets (Washington Post) using the principle of 'verification by multiplicity' Kepler finds a planet with a 11-year precession period (Hubble) Earth's is 26,000 years Measuring an exoplanet's mass the hard way (Astrobites) by using transmission spectroscopy of the atmosphere |
Einstein: a lost theory rediscovered (Nature) toying with Steady State? Snack Time in the Cosmos (NY Times) our galaxy's SMBH is about to begin feeding Why galaxies delay star birth (Sky & Telescope) 2 research groups find the smoking gun: hot stars' winds and radiation flux decrease cool gas density, and thus star formation Missing galaxy mass found (Nature) discrepancy between Planck CMB results and gravitational lensing solved? the culprit: the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (or did a 4th neutrino cause it?... see column to the right) One of the youngest ever galaxies found (Hubble) 30x smaller than ours, but forming stars at a 10x higher rate 'Watching' our nearest galactic companion (LMC) rotate (Hubble) sadly, no movie, only vector directions |
Physics is enjoying a golden age (Washington Post) GPS and relativity, dark matter & energy, quantum entanglement, mathematics as structure X-rays detected from dark matter? (Matt Strassler) including a purported emission line LHC's ATLAS detector sees no quantum black holes (Science 2.0) is this good or bad??? Fear-mongering and another new particle accelerator (Science 2.0) this time it's strangelets that will destroy the world Dept of Energy future support for particle physics: A Calamity (Sean Carroll) support for research & grad students could drop 30 - 50% Cosmic mismatch hints at sterile neutrino (Scientific American) mismatch is between Planck CMB results and lack of galaxy clustering (but also see the entry in the column to the left) catch Particle Fever (IMDB) "Physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time -- or perhaps their greatest failure." opens 3/5/13 in NYC; 3/21/14 in DC |
science & technology 'LASERs to beam our minds into space soon' please let it be after I'm dead The Mammoth Cometh (NY Times) bringing an extinct animal back to life is going to very cool, unless it's very bad Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes (Venture Beat) Apps are turning us into sociopaths (Wired) the BroApp will send random & regular love notes to your sig other 15 inaccurate science diagrams (Mental Floss) electrons don't orbit, raindrops aren't tear-drop shaped, and more genes The Brain's Inner Language (NY Times) mapping the mouse brain Your ancestors, your fate (NY Times) your chances for upward social mobility may depend on your genes (w/examples of 'good' and 'bad' last names) current events Who 'won' the Olympics? (Medals per Capita) it's either Slovenia or Norway WhatsApp is Everything that's wrong with the US economy (Trove) they don't make anything; yes, they've made a few people enormously rich.... but where are the jobs? politics 25 maps that explain America (Washington Post) NC stands out in long-term unemployment, inbound immigration, and lagging behind in Internet speed Obama, Democrats surrender to 'blue slip' and the Republicans on judges (Washington Post) What the Hell is Obama's Presidency for? (Guardian) does he even know? The gap between rich and poor and black and white has grown while he's been in office, the prospects for immigration reform remain remote, bankers made away with the loot, and Guantánamo's still open. Comcast web of lobbyists set to attack Capitol Hill with money (NY Times) 100 lobbyists (including former senators & reps & a former FCC chair), 100 bought congressmen... how can these guys lose? sadly, one of only two physicists in the US House will not seek re-election (NY Times) not that one person can really stop the excess of scientific ignorance in government talking bad to Governor McCrory can get you fired (Raleigh N&O) governor offers to find fired clerk another job Outrage over Wall St. pay but shrugs for Silicon Valley? (NY Times) maybe because SV didn't cause a 5-year depression, like Wall St. did? technology new pcell system to offer private wireless fast lane? (NY Times) poor 'taste' More than half the food Walmart sells would be banned at Whole Foods (Slate) surprise... surprise a plea for sympathy for an obnoxious, under-talented, overpaid actor (NY Times) the pleas is almost as offensive as the behavior the Duke Energy toxic coal ash spill story that WUNC suppressed twice on 2/21/14 (NPR) on the audio version of the DE story, listen to Gov. Pat McCrory (ex-Duke Energy) squelch a reporter 2 steps closer to 1984 : Homeland security seeks license-plate monitoring system (Washington Post) update: DHS changes its mind one day after plan leaked Spying with Lights (NY Times) 'terrifying' |
You think you know what teachers do, right? Wrong! (Washington Post) from an ex-teacher, now a lawyer..... you work just as hard, but get paid 5x less Alan Alda: how to make science accessible (NY Times) a Q&A review of his popular talk at the recent AAAS Chicago meeting The Art of Science Learning (SEED) it's time for wood and clay? Sports Olympians get money, nurturing, and fame... Academic Olympians, not so much (USA Today) Stop the tax-free gifts to Harvard (and other well endowed schools) and save America (Bloomberg) the rich colleges are doing nothing to help upward mobility... and a ditto from Slate UNC to look harder for academic fraud (Raleigh N&O) will they actually find it this time? Q&A about the dispute NC private school vouchers 'on hold' (Raleigh N&O) violates NC constitution Duke U. explains that its $60 K tuition is actually a 'bargain' (NPR Planet Money) 'only' 25% goes to admin/academic 'support'... pie chart shows where tuition goes Increase in Duke tuition due to administrative hires, no faculty (Duke Chronicle) STEM Academy's Reach Spans Illinois (Education Week) article on IMSA, the NCSSM-like school in Illinois... NCSSM gets a very minor mention... the present Chancellor is an ex-NCSSM RA Wake county students won't have to make up last week's 3 snow days (Raleigh N&O) 'spring break is saved'... apparently NC students are smart enough McCrory's tax cuts prevent all teacher salaries from being raised (Raleigh N&O) so essentially all teachers in years 1 - 6 will make the same salary Snow days impact low-income families much more (WUNC) |
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best images of Saturn's hexagonal weather system (Cassini) February guide to observing the planets (Earth & Sky) Mercury still noticeable in the west after sunset |
Archaeology of the Stars (NY Times) on age & the metallicity of stars (in the Times!?!) first weather- pattern observations on a brown dwarf (Max Planck) and how they managed to do this without seeing a surface Help astronomers find planetary disks (Disk Detective) another citizen science project why is Polaris getting brighter? (Live Science) and it's not the only Cepheid doing so |
Amino acids, aliens, and the origin of life (Space) terrestrial life is based on only 20 of many amino acids... did it have to be this way? have you read the latest NASA graphic astrobiology novels? (Astrobiology) wait.... what? |
Mystery of ultra- compact galaxies solved? (Hubble) early starbursts, burned-out compacts, massive elliptical galaxies now all connected in one grand evolutionary scheme Missing galaxy clusters? (Sky and Telescope) number of clusters found via SZ-effect and surveys does not match Planck observations |
Hawking's recent black-hole 'paper' continues to draw commentary... the best so far although see below for more Introduction to the Black-Hole Information Paradox (Matt Strassler) |
Russia bashing and US hypocrisy Russia has anti-gay laws!! oh, wait.... so do 8 US states there's bribery and corruption in the 2014 Olympics!! oh, wait.... have we really forgotten about Salt Lake City and the buying of its Olympic games? the Russian Olympics will be a security nightmare for participants!! oh wait, you mean like the offensive security at any US airport? Russia has huge income inequalities among its workers!! oh wait.... there's greater inequality in NY City here's a whole hour of Russia bashing (and smug US superiority) (Diane Rehm show, 1-hour audio) can't wait till the next US Olympics when these same 'journalists' will similarly bash the US for lack of health care for all, a precipitous drop in the minimum wage since the 1950's, and the anti-science mindset of a majority of Americans (anti-evolution, anti- climate science, etc.) miscellaneous Misunderstanding orange juice as healthy (The Atlantic) Is Atheism Irrational (NY Times) continued silliness from philosphers WUNC (the local NPR station) has begun one of its over-many, excessively-annoying, greedy pledge drives (worst in the nation) listen live to NPR broadcasts in peace on your computer at WBUR (Boston) KCRW (L.A.) WKSU (Kent St.) WBEZ (Chicago) KPLU (Seattle) or download these stations apps for android or iphone.. better yet, download NPR's app and listen to Morning Edition or All Things Considered without all the station breaks, news breaks.... another generation discovers that the sum of all the positive integers equals - 1/12 What Machines Can't Do (NY Times) enthusiasm, focus, creative teamwork, design, & reduction to essentials a summary of conservative positions on current issues (PJ Media) not that its positions are either sensical or defensible.. mostly it's a whiny criticism of wealth and the 'haves', which is odd, because that's exactly what their economic policies favor |
NC governor's plan to raise starting-teacher salaries by 14% (Raleigh N&O) but nothing, apparently, for any other teachers Do Parents Care Enough about School? (NY Times) or are educators shirking responsibility? Sunday's N&O in-depth cover story: Teachers' Jobs Harder, Compensation Stagnant (Raleigh N&O) 'stagnant'?? how about 'decreasing'? did they read their own story? Thousands run in Raleigh on 2/8/14 in Krispy Kreme Challenge Thousands march in Raleigh on 2/8/14 for public education, the eradication of poverty, health care for all, expansion of voting rights, etc guess which got the top headline in News & Observer? NC State's Emerging Issues Forum: Training, Retention, and Support of Teachers February 10 - 11 streamed live Virtual school on snow days (NY Times) this is debatable? Sky & Telescope releases an Excel spreadsheet of magazine's Tables of Content since 1941 Part-time professors demand higher pay... will colleges listen? (NPR) 25% of all college teachers are now 'adjunct' Adjuncts are better teachers than tenured faculty Chronicle for Higher Education students learn more from non-tenured faculty than tenured faculty... well, at least on economics and poli-sci courses Are Tenure-Track Professors Better Teachers? A Review of the Academic Evidence on the Relationahip between Teaching and Research in Higher Education a mild correlation found in the study of studies at 0.10 (individual studies have correlation coefficients from -0.4 to 0.8) Another Meta-analysis of the relationship between reserach and teaching (Review of Educational Research) correlation = 0 |
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Asteroids' unexpectedly diverse composition points to more chaotic early solar system (Nature) early planetary migration; frequent asteroid collisions continuing today Astrobites comments Now is the best time to see Mercury (Sky & Telescope) low in the west after sunset Opportunity: still ticking after 10 years (Sky & Telescope) designed to last for 3 months and travel 200 m, it's gone 38 km Asteroid Ceres is venting water (ESA Herschel) first discovery of water around an asteroid.... ok, only 6 kg/s, but still.... 'Jelly-Doughnut' rock appears in front of Mars Rover (Washington Post) Citizen Science Project Explore Mars from home (Planet Four) Rosetta wakes up, phones home (ESA) comet rendezous this August... comet landing, November? meteors from the dead Comet ISON? (Earth & Sky) unlikely, but watch on January 15... sadly, the life of the Int'l Space Station has been extended (NASA) one of the most anti-science things in existence 4 types of waves in the atmosphere of Venus (Earth&Sky) "long, medium, short, and irregular" (oh, those scientists and their clever names) Best images of Moon from Jade Rabbit (Planetary Society) _________________ from the journals: The Case Against Copernicus (Scientific American, January 2014) It wasn't religion that heliocentrism had to overcome... it was a better model |
Supernova explodes in (relatively) nearby galaxy (Scientific American) apparently a type IA, so no neutrino burst Observing Guide for the supernova (Sky & Telescope) don't get too excited... you still need a pretty big telescope images of M82 supernova Native American Crab Nebula Supernova Art debunked (Scientific American) Why stars seem brighter in winter (Earth & Sky) we're staring through the dust plane of the galaxy in summer; away from it in winter |
Giant planetary system formation site discovered (Astronomy) found by sub-mm ALMA array Better than Earth: SuperHabitable Worlds (Astrobites) planets that are in the middle of the habitable zone (not on the edge, like Earth)... lots of speculation about plate tectonics, magnetic shielding, and what not How to Keep Warm Outside the Habitable Zone (Astrobites) tidal heating in eccentic orbits Massive exoplanets may be more like Earth than previously thought (Northwestern) with actual continents (i.e., and not just waterworlds), due to a water cycle between surface oceans and mantle First Earth-mass planet found by transit (Astronomy magazine) KOI-314c in 5:3 resonance with outer companion planet but it's no Earth twin big(Nature) |
Evolution of the bar fraction in spiral galaxies (Astrobites) the fraction of bar galaxies appears to decrease as we go back in time Expanding supernova photospheres as galaxy distance measures (Astrobites) Citizen Science Project: Map the mass distribution in extragalactic gravitational lenses (Space Warps) Citizen Science Project: help create a 3-D Milky Way model (Milky Way at Home) using SDSS data Gravitational Lensing of Supernovae (Astrobites) Onset of Spiral Structure in Galaxies (Astrophysical Journal) appears to begin at z = 1.8 |
Hawking's new claim about black holes (Nature) despite what has been universally reported ("there are no black holes") he actually said there are no permanent event horizons... Hawking's paper attempts to resolve the firewall paradox (arXiv) a 2-page article, with no equations, is generating no light, but a lot of "heat" some other (mostly useless) comments: Astrobites New Scientist Scientific American more helpful than most: Matt Strassler with a follow-up overhyped book of the month: "Our Mathematical Universe" by Max Tegmark (Amazon) now (1/20/14) the #1 seller on Amazon in cosmology why NOT to buy it: it's "devoid of content" (Wall Street Journal) another "I'm not convinced" a less extreme view: When does multiverse speculation cross over into fantasy? (New Scientist) [want even crazier? try his just-published "Consciousness as a state of matter" (arXiv) which introduces 'perceptronium', a new state of matter] Should Physicists Stop Looking for Fundamental Laws? (Scientific American) well, yes, if the multiverse theory is true |
A New Physics Theory of Life (Quanta) "the underlying physics driving the origin and evolution of life"? The States of our Union (Politico) ranking of states based on 14 criteria: income inequality, math scores, life expectancy, etc NC ranks 40th 9 questions about Ukraine and the protests that you were embarrassed to ask (Washington Post) with excellent graphics sports Where's the payoff for big-time college sports? (Raleigh N&O) it doesn't appear to exist Get Rid of the Olympic Games (Washington Post) the political, moral, financial, and human costs Is it Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl? (NY Times) King of Sports & the Pathology of Football (Diane Rehm Show 1-hour audio) tax evasion, shattered brains, 'get an education' pretense Health Hazards of Sitting (Washington Post) with pictures.... how to increase your chances of dying by 61% science Aging: an older brain is not really slower... it's just fuller (NY Times) are mental tests biased toward the young? 5 big unanswered questions (Washington Post) or we are on the verge of science's end? 20 articles and 6 months of GMO articles (Grist) none of the research apparently matters... what was learned in writing the articles Climate Science, Climate Activism? (NY Times) is it OK for scientists to be silent in a controversy? Best-Selling Science Books (NY Times) it's interesting to see what the Times thinks is 'science' Which Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement? (Edge) its annual question of the year [some answers: infinity, the theory of everything, the universe (as in 1), etc.] The Continuing Costs of (NC) Coastal Confusion (Orrin Pilkey, Raleigh N&O) and, as always, the readers comments are especially entertaining public policy A Big Step Toward Voting Rights (NY Times) The Undeserving Rich (NY Times) 50 States of Fear (NY Times) how the government manipulates our security fears... and what we should be spending TSI money on Going the Distance (New Yorker) On and Off the Road with Barack Obama... 18 (web) pages Is Privacy Obsolete? (Detroit Free Press) 40 more maps that explain the world (Washington Post) |
Wake Co. middle schools moving to digital textbooks (Raleigh N&O) and what if you have no internet access at home? NC schools reports cards released for 2012-2013 Wake County (among many others) cancels school for the day (1/28/14)... snow doesn't show up until after 6 pm school officials defend decision another great day for NC education... most Triangle schools still closed 3 days later, after 1-2" 'snowstorm' how much snow does it take to cancel school across the USA? this map tells you The latest attacks on science in the classroom (Mother Jones) e.g., did you know that astrology (sic) undermines climate science? (from South Dakota) Backlash at UNC (Chronicle of Higher Education) "someone has to fix this mess" Drop-out rate reaches 95% at Harvard and MIT well, in the EdX online courses Valuing Education? New York City gets 11 inches of snow & schools are open but.... Orange and Person County get 1 inch; schools are closed of course (01/21/14) Obama's Homework Assignment (NY Times) what's missing in American education... anyone listening? NC legislator says he hears people say "We're not paying our teachers as much as surrounding states" (WUNC) gosh, could that be true? What's up with low scores in NC math classrooms? (WUNC) the test has changed, not the students |
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9 of the best 2013 pictures from Mars (Guardian) solar flare erupts; huge spot is front & center on sun (NASA) aurora alerts for mid USA starting 1/9/14; space station shuttle launch delayed 36 stunning photographs from the Cassini mission to Saturn (The Atlantic) with commentary The Madness of the Planets (Nautil.us) on the instability of our solar system catch the now-crescent Venus before it disappears (Earth & Sky) |
evidence for first Thorne-Zytkow star (a red supergiant that swallowed a neutron star)? (Nature) evidence: Li, Rb, Mb excess triple-dead-star system could be used to test GR (New Scientist) system contains 1 neutron star & 2 white dwarfs... commentary from Astrobites A Supernova Dust Factory (NRAO) the frozen aftermath of the explosion Stormy Stars (Spitzer) weather on brown dwarfs... a lot of hype, few hard facts |
New technique of measuring exoplanet masses (Astronomy magazine) mass estimate derived from the transmission spectrum during transit; the content & density of the planet's atmosphere in turn depend on planet's mass GJ436b & GJ1214b: a warm Neptune & and a super-Earth with clouds (Hubble) lack of spectral features in light passing through the planet's atmosphere during transit means a high-altitude cloud later & audio from NPR Cloudy with a chance of dustballs (Nature commentary with links to Nature discovery articles) the strangest exoplanet discoveries of 2013 (Scientific American) smallest, most Earth-like, most distant from its star, worlds with water, blue colors due to glass rain (sic) what an exomoon would look like from Earth: a lightcurve demo (Scientific American) Worlds Without End (Nautil.us) on finding another Earth |
First gamma-ray gravitational lens (Astronomy magazine) found by the Fermi satellite New class of hypervelocity stars caught escaping our galaxy (Vanderbilt) not kicked out by the SMBH at the galactic center SWIFT satellite explores galactic center in x-rays (SWIFT) neutron star flares; simulation of SMBH shredding of gas cloud Dwarf Galaxies: clues to the origin of supermassive black holes (NRAO) or, Galactic Runts Carry Beefy Black Holes (Sky and Telescope) but only 1% found feeding... are the rest dormant or non-existent? Unprecedented accuracy in galaxy-distance measurements (SDSS) to within + 1% Sci Am story has better explanation Thousands of faint distant galaxies seen for the first time (Hubble-Spitzer-Chandra) using an intermediate gravitational lens 4 unusually bright star-forming galaxies as they looked more than 13 billions years ago (Hubble-Spitzer) A Deep Sea of Small Faint galaxies (Hubble) 10 billion yrs ago, galaxies were 100x more numerous but 100x fainter Death by Black Hole in a Small Galaxy (Spitzer) the first known shredding of a star in a dwarf galaxy A rare crash in our galaxy's core (AAS) coming this March? |
Dark Matter near Earth peaks every March (Scientific American) GPS satellite orbits suggest equatorial disk of dark matter around Earth (New Scientist) Breaking Relativity: Celestial signals that defy Einstein (New Scientist) |
a very unfortunate court ruling against net neutrality (Slate) but, of course, the Wall St Journal cheers it on miscellaneous science Using the Internet to Search for Time Travelers (arXiv) poster paper presented at AAS meeting.... spoiler alert: none found! commentary from Astrobites Science News top stories of 2013 (Science News) Planck, Kepler demise, Voyager I, negative temperature comet ISON, dark energy, Siberian meteorite make list of top 25 The Science of Reincarnation (NPR 7-minute audio & transcript) I guess this would work when time travel doesn't Science Culture Top Tickets: 2014 (Nature) the best in museums, exhibits, movies, and music to come in 2014 'Quantum computing' top headline in Washington Post or at least NSA's efforts to make it work Quantum Computing explained? (Washington Post) well, at least one long-standing myth dispelled Science magazine: breakthrough of t he year 2013: Cancer Immunotherapy runners-up included the identification of cosmic ray origins: the debris clouds of supernovas 2013 science in review (Nature) & what to expect in 2014 (Nature) Why the passenger pigeon became extinct (New Yorker) The Future of Space Exploration (Diane Rhem Show 1-hour audio) an exciting time for exploring the science of the universe (habitable exoplanets, geysers on Europa, water on Mars, etc.), but instead the US spends its money building big rockets and putting humans into space rather than the former Tikker, the watch that counts down the time until you die NPR story The Atlantic story and why would someone buy this? technology 2014 Consumer Electronics Show How NSA almost killed the Internet (Wired) Women Aren't Welcome Here (Pacific Standard) 'here' = the Internet... and what to do about it Will digital networks ruin us? differences between brick-and-mortar companies and digital ones... and why you should get paid any time you give up your personal info The Death Watch no, wait... The Happiness Watch.. it counts down the time till you die health care The barriers to a single-payer health-care system (Bloomberg) it's not the insurance companies; it's the pharmaceuticals, the doctors, & the medical device companies Obamacare a step forward (Raleigh N&O) Obamacare is here to stay (Washington Post) Real Obamacare enrollment numbers (The Atlantic) as opposed to those made up by supporters and opponents The Obamacare we Deserve (NY Times) now, how about insurance for everybody? and the contrary How Obamacare might pave the way toward Single Payer (New Republic) the bribe Obama paid to the insurance companies so they wouldn't object (Washington Post) war & foreign policy a foreign-policy report card for the Obama administration (Washington Post) 1 A, 2 B's, 2 C's, 3D's & 1F the 3 types of NSA snooping revealed by Snowden (Washington Post) and why we're never going to agree about whether he's a hero or traitor The Quiet Fury of Robert Gates (Wall Street Journal) unquietly contemptuous of both Congress and the Obama administration, and particularly, Joe Biden The Inconsistency of Robert Gates (Washington Post) which was it?: “the most gratifying experience of my life” or “People have no idea how much I detest this job.” elections Gerrymandered districts decide NC elections (Raleigh N & O) in 2012, Democrats got 51% of the vote for US House seats; Republicans got 69% of the seats (it was just as bad when Democrats were in power) National Strategy Funds State Political Monopolies (NY Times) how out-of-state money manipulates state politics miscellaneous the first book-less library (Time magazine) in San Antonio What your beer/wine tells about your politics (Washington Post) Coors/Miller Lite & red sauvignon wines = Republican microbrew beer & & white sauvignon wines = Democrat What your liquor/wine tells about your politics (Washington Post) Beefeater = Democrat Kendall-Jackson wine = Republican Why Men Really Earn More than Women (Slate) competitiveness and overconfidence.... gee, now there's a surprise the Boeing extortion (LA Times) " In 1980, 84% of US workers ..." earned lifetime pensions from their companies, and 70% got health insurance fully paid for..." "Today, fewer than 30% have lifetime pensions and only 18% have fully employer-paid health insurance. And we wonder why workers are upset? The Map of Worsts (Washington Post) find out what your state is worst at... NC: teacher salaries... duh |
teaching in NC Teachers: Just Say No (Raleigh N&O) to the legislature's proposal to give up lifetime tenure for $500. Here's how to raise NC teacher pay (ex-Governor Jim Hunt) it's not exactly rocket science I would love to teach, but .... (Washington Post) I might have titled a virtually identical article, "Why I retired ..." since so much of my experience matches his An Urgent Wake-up Call from NC Teachers (Raleigh N & O) will the legislature pay attention? _______________ UNC-CH academic/athletic scandal Majority of UNC-CH athletes reading like children (Raleigh N&O) and most don't have the excuse that they went to NC schools... BB coach denies it UNC-CH athlete reading scandal story heats up Time for UNC-CH to come clean on athletic/academic scandal (Raleigh N&O) when will they stop the stonewalling? CNN story says it's widespread reading scandal story heats up A's for UNC athletes, an indictment for the professor (NY Times) an outside view of the UNC academic/athletic mess _______________ the future of teaching Hoteling: the future of college education Wall Street Journal "buy a defunct college campus, ... don't bother to hire faculty, ... bring in on-line engineering from Georgia Tech, literature from Yale, business from Stanford... hire unemployed PhDs to tutor..." students can live anywhere in the world... in other words, let's not create anything of value... being a middle man rules! The rise and fall of MOOCs (NPR) On-line education drifts off course... was it really ever on course? GOP Darwinism (Washington Post) anti-evolutionism thinking among Republicans up 20% in the past 10 years... have their young stopped going to school? or is it evolution? The Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence (The Atlantic) where it's helpful; where it isn't... and something guidance counselors should read.... if they actually read, that is What's the matter with Kansas schools? (NY Times) what happens when the legislature cuts school budgets by 15% Obama administration criticizes schools' 'zero tolerance' policies (NY Times) |