Archive - Mar 22, 2009

So this morning someone on Mefi posted a link to recently digitally archived Playboy back issues. Yeah 53 issues, even the articles! (Sorry I had to make the joke.)

So I scurried right over to get me some early morning 1960's pre-silicone boobage. But what's this, Silverlight?? I have to install Silverlight on my Mac? As if Playboy, in the words of one irate Mefi-ite, "Not even for boobies."

But this column in the G&M is bang on the money. At least as far as I can tell based on my thesis - (that's right now I have a body of research I can appeal to what a bonus!).

Kids who don't come from advantage need hella more then "portfolio based curriculums (new school education reform), or the 3 R's and standardized testing (old-schoool education reform), or portfolio-based learning with standardized testing tacked on at the end (Quebec bien oui!).

The schools she is talking about here, the KIPP program (Knowledge Is Power Program) have instituted many changes to a traditional public or even private model school, school days are much longer, students can actually call their teachers off school hours for homework help, and the curriculum includes some non-standard elements like overt training in listening and attention skills, instead of the simple yet- in-effective exhortion to; "PAY ATTENTION CLASS".