I’ve never been sufficiently enticed by the “raw hucksterism” of television-based retail to buy a product directly off of an infomercial (i.e. to CALL NOW), but I still own at least three products which proudly bear the moniker “As seen on TV”. In support of my recent assertion that lists lend themselves to top-quality blogging, [...]
Last Saturday, moments after I had posted a condemnation of math education, Jessica read me an unexpectedly relevant blurb from New York Magazine. Julia Stiles, it seems, has long felt unsatisfied with her public elementary school education, and earlier this year she decided to voice her concerns to NYC School Chancellor Joel Klein.
During the Atlantic’s [...]
By way of Scott Aaronson, I recently read a surprisingly inspired essay on the dysfunctional state of math education. Paul Lockhart, the essay’s author, is a serious mathematician. He has a PhD in mathematics, is a former MSRI fellow and a former Brown professor. Since 2000, however, he has chosen to teach math at Saint [...]
According to a relatively recent New York Times article, only 7.4 million of the 133 million blogs tracked by the blog search engine Technorati have been updated in the last 120 days. This blog has become perilously close to falling into that neglected 95%, as my last post is dated February 18th, 2009 (although to [...]