Continuing yesterday’s theme, I offer you a Latin test from 1964, with no comment about how well I would do on it today:
Month: March 2011
An AP US History test from 1964
Deep in my attic, in an old file folder, I discovered an AP US History test that I took back in October of 1964: I wonder how many of those questions I could answer correctly today, especially within a 50-minute… Read More ›
Rubrics
We’re all being pressed to use rubrics. For those of you not in the ed biz, a rubric is described pretty well in Wikipedia: A rubric is a scoring tool for subjective assessments. It is a set of criteria and… Read More ›
Holmes lives.
I’m currently reading my third Sherlock Holmes pastiche of the month, and I have one more in audiobook format that I still need to listen to. All four are set entirely or in part after the Conan Doyle canon. We’ll… Read More ›
OK
I recently read OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word, by Allan Metcalf. For some unaccountable reason this book has only two customer reviews on Amazon; there must be some good reason for that. Anyway, Metcalf tells you everything… Read More ›
A test should tell a story.
A colleague who does not teach in our Math Department was tutoring one of my students. Not being familiar with our mildly unusual Honors Geometry course, she found that she herself did not know how to do the last problem… Read More ›
English literature, “foreign literature,” and poetry month
When I was talking with a Weston English teacher the other day, I realized that my own high-school experience with literature as assigned by English teachers was badly skewed. “This is an English department, not an American department” was one… Read More ›
Math should be useful, or fun, or beautiful…
The great Art Benjamin, whom we’ve had the pleasure of listening to twice at Weston High School, made the following remarks in his TED talk: If I had an extra minute, I’d also talk about how we shouldn’t only show the mathematics… Read More ›
Professional development/Race to Nowhere
Today we participated in an intense professional development (PD) program and worked on our preparation for NEASC accreditation. NEASC work is often frustrating but often useful as well (more on that later). Today’s PD was quite interesting. The main part of… Read More ›
Suing your child’s preschool
Strange but true (like many of the other news reports heard on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me): A Manhattan mom is suing a $19,000-a-year preschool, claiming it jeopardized her daughter’s chances of getting into an elite private school…. and the elite… Read More ›
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