Monthly Archive for February, 2007

The Knucklehead Of The Day

I guess the name of the alleged perpetrator was withheld to protect the stupid guilty: PITTSBURGH — A local mother is outraged after a teacher allegedly gave her 14-year-old daughter a sexually explicit poem.

It’s called “How Do You Make Love to a Black Woman?”

The Murray Accelerated Learning Academy teacher reportedly gave the student the poem after class.

The poem includes graphic language.

Today’s Non Sequitur

And I thought that only stupid spoiled slutty young would-be American “artistes” such as the lamentable Paris Hilton and that possibly certainly certifiable whackjob Britney Spears boasted of going knickerless in public.

Veteran British actress Helen Mirren has proven that notion to be incorrect.

Didn’t someone once mention that our Transatlantic Cousins were supposed to have better manners if

Giving Homework The Heave-Ho

One San Francisco-area elementary is radically re-thinking homework: A Menlo Park elementary school is saying no to homework for some of its students. The kids, and most parents and teachers like the idea.

First graders spend a good six hours a day doing school work — what they do after school should not include homework. That’s the decision made last October by the principal of Oak Knoll

Making Motion But Making Little Progress

Joanne Jacobs:
High school seniors’ reading proficiency didn’t improve from 2002 to 2005 and declined from 1992 to 2005, according to the new Nation’s Report Card from NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress). In math, less than a quarter of students tested as proficient in 2005. Since 1992, the percentage of 12th graders reading at or above the basic level has slipped from 80 percent

Summarizing Intangible Assets

The study conducted by Ely and Waymire provides a historic overview of the accounting principles acceptable in 1930th. At those times, firms were allowed to capitalize intangible assets that were internally generated by the company. On a sample of companies dated 1927, the researches arrive at the conclusion that stakeholders were skeptical about the capitalized intangible financial information

Studying Fcat Strategies

Students are being tested on multiple capabilities including Cause and Effect, Chronological Order, Graphic Organizers, Probable Passage, Question/Answer Relationship (QAR), Selective Underlining, Semantic Feature Analysis, and Story Mapping. Probable passage is a type of strategy which enhances comprehension, improve an awareness of story formation and augment vocabulary development. The

The Concept of Innovation

Death and renewal lead to a constant innovative cycle of the market generated by new firms that prosper until a new substitutive technology is introduced to the market. Consequently, in order to remain competitive companies must combine the existing resources in order to create a new use of current resources, create combinations, or, simply, innovate. Schumpeter views innovation as the driving

Understanding the Process of Skill Formation

When it comes to the learning process, there are three distinct types of learning: cognitive, affective and psychomotor. While the first two refer to mental skills and growth in feelings and emotional areas, the third type is physical skills. The learning process is sequential and as we learn, we move to specific phases. Fitts and Posner offer a simplified version of the learning process. As

Analyzing the Impact of Product Evolution

Emergence of the new technological solutions such as software, microchips, bioengineering, nanotechnology resulted in higher emphasis being placed on pharmaceuticals, ICTs, and other high tech industries. At the same time, low tech sectors have also greatly evolved over time. For instance, the Portuguese footwear industry has gone through restructuring process in the 1990s: creative use of micro

The Analysis of the Research’s Statistics

There are two distinct messages that are evident in the evaluation phase of the research. The first one is related to the efficiency of programs intending to raise the level of risk awareness among population. Even though participants who are directly involved in farming obviously are exposed to higher risks, they do not realize the degree to full extent, as the level of awareness is lower then