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Monday
Jan 31, 2005
Now that Bert The Turtle has seen his day, the US federal government needs a new way to teach kids how to be safe in these scary times. To this end, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has set upFEMA for kids.
to Education by caspian
Wednesday
Sep 3, 2003
It's Choose your Own Adventure, old skool style, with Goofus and Gallant.
to Education by fringehead
Wednesday
Mar 12, 2003
If you love the water and you are a slacker at school, this might be a course for you
to Education by leptirica
Monday
Jan 27, 2003
Riti Sped teaches special education. She takes her students out into the world, involves them in her extracurricular activities and provides valuable life lessons.
to Education by roo
Saturday
Oct 5, 2002
They say it's best to begin training children very early in their lives. There may be no greater proponents of this philosophy than cosplay enthusiasts. White Kitty, Grapes, Funny Cow, The Sea Creatures, American Goldfinch, and the Baby Bug Brigade all have an incredible head start.
to Education by scromp
Friday
Sep 6, 2002
ABC's with a twist.
to Education by leptirica
Sunday
Apr 28, 2002
You don't care about it now, but when your toilet backs up you'll flock to assimilate the information at Toiletology. While there, you can learn about new technology that helps you find your toilet in the dark.
to Education by onigame
Sunday
Mar 3, 2002
Ever since the birth of the gameshow, useless facts have become quite useful.
to Education by 7layerburrito
Wednesday
Oct 3, 2001
Anyone who's read Usenet has seen "do my homework" requests thinly disguised as questions. With the advent of the web, the burden of this search for "knowledge" is shifting to the web and, as always, there are people out there eager to mislead and confuse the lazy and dishonest.
to Education by riotnrrd
Monday
Jun 4, 2001
Roadkill-it's not just fun, it's educational.
to Education by saucy
Saturday
Jan 6, 2001
"Mommy, it's not my fault. I got bad grades because I watch TV and I'm not Asian!"
to Education by djinn
Friday
Jan 5, 2001
Can't choose between good and evil? Learn to do evil right at Evil Science University. No information yet on where to learn how to do good (not to be confused with doing well).
to Education by djinn
Friday
Oct 20, 2000
RouterGod is a celebrity magazine for Cisco professionals. Read celebrities talk about their favorite networking topics: Alicia Silverstone on ISDN, Mr. Rogers on the RS232 pinout, Tonya Harding on the Cisco 700, and Seven of Nine on OSPF. The newest lecture is Darva Conger on the configure register of Cisco routers.
to Education by gen
Thursday
Oct 19, 2000
Two students jailed for refusing to watch commercial-heavy corporate education Channel One.
to Education by skallas
Friday
Sep 22, 2000
LIS News: News for libraries. Stuff that matters. (Librarians are more interesting than you probably think.)
to Education by tregoweth
Thursday
Aug 24, 2000
With this "back to school" thing going on, I couldn't help wondering about pencils. And I found lots and lots of information about pencils. Some teachers, trying to keep their kids modivated, even have their students design new pencils. And remember, before you go back to school to prepare your emergancy locker kit.
to Education by rampage
Tuesday
May 2, 2000
Despite the best intentions of your parents, teachers and school administrators, school often amounts to a cross between a prison and a wage-slave indoctrination center. Even those who perform well in school are saddled with a lifelong, toxic addiction to external validation. Don't surrender your childhood so easily! If you find school limiting, I urge you to explore the "unschooling" (or "homeschooling") movement. An excellent starting place is The Teenage Liberation Handbook; How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, by Grace Llewellyn. (Yes, there are tips on how to sell your parents on the idea...)
to Education by cricket
Friday
Apr 28, 2000
"Were there gay vikings?" The web proves that for every question, there is an expert.
to Education by riotnrrd
Wednesday
Apr 5, 2000
Alternative schooling has been around for a while. Summerhill, established near Dresden way back in 1921, is perhaps the most well-known of its kind, and was the inspration for much that has come since. More recently, the Sudbury Valley School (founded in Massachusetts in 1968,) developed a philosophy called demoractic (or "free") schooling, which has been adopted by schools all over the world, including institutions in California, Australia, Denmark and Maui.
to Education by avi
Tuesday
Feb 15, 2000
Standardized tests are so ubiquitous in American academic life that it is hard to remember a time when one's future didn't depend on them. While I was disappointed to find out that the gender gap in SAT scores continues, I was fascinated to learn about the uptopian experiment that created the tests.
to Education by birgitte
Saturday
Feb 5, 2000
Is your horse or pet dog lame, feeling sick, or in pain? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police can help.
to Education by riotnrrd
Tuesday
Jan 25, 2000
Learn Japanese in Ten Minutes. No, really!
to Education by stimpy
Tuesday
Dec 14, 1999
Worried about those shootings in schools? Don't leave the delicate task of predicting and thwarting student violence to humans. A friendly, well-adjusted, and entirely non Big Brother-like computer program will do it for you. As they say, "the objective process resists bias."
to Education by fringehead
Monday
Dec 13, 1999
Channel One was just the beginning. Now they want to put Nike ads on school computers.
to Education by rsf
Wednesday
Oct 13, 1999
A friend of mine is convinced that this school's logo means no thinking / no fucking.
to Education by peterb
Tuesday
Oct 5, 1999
Do you know precocious, mathematically-gifted teenagers bored out of their skulls slogging through high school calculus? Point them to Math Camp, an intense and stimulating summer program targeted at bright 13-to-18 year olds. Think you were pretty smart in high school, hotshot? Check out the qualifying quiz that 13-year-olds are passing to get admitted.
to Education by pjammer
Wednesday
Sep 22, 1999
Resampling is a Monte Carlo approach to statistics using repeated simulations that is purported to be a much easier pedagogical approach to statistics than the traditional formula-based methods of teaching it. If you tried to learn statistics before and were stumped, perhaps it's time to give it another shot.
to Education by arkuat
Tuesday
Sep 21, 1999
School violence has been the media's favorite topic of the moment, and it has raised a lot of issues. Many were profiled in Slashdot's Voices from the Hell Mouth, and now the U.S. Department of Justice, along with the U.S. Department of Education, have stepped in, with a well written, and hopefully, guiding document for schools. But one question: Would you trust your school nurse?
to Education by imploded
Monday
Sep 20, 1999
How an urban-planning class integrates the work of non-academic Jane Jacobs.
to Education by arkuat
Thursday
Sep 16, 1999
For a class project on robotics, these Minnesota fifth graders made deadly spiders, death rays, and roller coasters out of Legos. The programs for some projects have a certain Ballardian poetry: "to crashcar: shine, crash, sound, end."
to Education by riotnrrd
Saturday
Aug 14, 1999
Because they think that Cliff's Notes are sometimes too hard to understand (according to the latest issue of Harper's, anyway) the good folks at Schoolbytes.com offer plot summaries that some might call easier to grasp, as well as Term Papers (such as this), and a quaint little section on History (such as that). Personally, I'm moving my family to Sweden.
to Education by goboro
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