The folks leading education in the U.S. today are corporatists who believe in quarterly reports, bottom line and accountability to pre-set standards. But teaching is a funny profession. Anyone who has spent a couple of years in a classroom with kids knows that instantaneous indicators of achievement like standardized test scores don’t mean much in the long term development of a student’s intellect. As a former high school physics and chemistry teacher, I am more interested in indicators that hold up over time. For a true-life example that just happened over the past 3 days, click here to see what my student from the class of 1965 is still inquiring about.
Kristine and Me
– August 6, 2010Posted in: Articles
Mik Martin thinks the artist might be using sand to balance the rocks, then blowing away the excess. This is based on an old trick of balancing an egg on its end using a pile of salt, then blowing away the salt. Maybe Kris can spwak to this.
Oops. “speak to this.”