I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, um, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future
Mr Wizard - Don Herbert - has died at the age of 89. He taught elementary science and the show ran very successfully for 14 years. We don’t really have an equivalent in the UK of the children’s TV science educator.
Over at Wellington Gray the near-complete infantilisation of Physics education in Britain is described.
In a BBC Panorama programme to be shown this evening in the UK, presenter Jeremy Vine asks the minister for police and security, Tony McNulty, his advice for what an individual should do when faced with a young man first aggressively shouting at an old woman in the street, and then beating her up.
The minister replies we should phone the police and, while waiting for them to arrive, attempt to distract the violent thug by jumping up and down.
In its most recent assessment, British 14-year-olds were out-performed by their contemporaries in 17 other countries. The average score in Singapore was 605, in Korea 589 and Hong Kong 586. In England and Scotland it was 498. In Western Europe, only Norwegians and Italians did worse.
Niall Fergusson, Are we too thick to realise the world isn’t flat?, Telegraph
Karen Buck, a former transport minister, said she will move her son, aged 12, to a local comprehensive after one term at the Paddington Academy.
Ms Buck said the teaching facilities and accommodation were “appalling”.
Well, duh… how did I miss these until now. Webcast and podcast courses from Berkley, from Art 23 - Foundations of American Cyberculture to Psych 130 - Clinical Psychology.
Ex-NUT President John Illingworth says he tried to resist government initiatives.
I’m not sure I can think of any other job where a senior employee could deliberately work against the clear and legal policies of his employer without being sacked.
Seen via del.icio.us, the Web Gallery of Art, a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the 12th-18th centuries. I went immediately to Vermeer and Caravaggio; and then to Canaletto to compare his paintings with my photos. I expect to be considerably enhancing my familiarity with Renaissance art in the next few months.
