You wouldn’t know it to meet her now, but she was a nerd.  One of the high-school-really-isn’t-that-wonderful-for-me kind of nerds.  She had her friends and the classes she was so good at, but she didn’t love it.  She always had the feeling she’d love college.  And she still does. Some of us grew up in homes where college was sort of something you dreamed about.  But in Cassandra’s home, college was an assumption.  Her father was a physician, and the question was not whether she would go to co

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Proposals due January 30th, 2009 March 5th-6th, 2009 - Pewaukee, WI (Waukesha County Technical College) Milwaukee Area Technical College, Waukesha County Technical College, and Wisconsin Campus Compact will host a series of workshops, round table discussions and a panel focused on transformative learning through service-learning, community engagement, and civic engagement. Faculty, staff, and administration from Wisconsin and surrounding area 2-year and technical colleges are invited to partici

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The Medical College of Wisconsin is a private, freestanding medical school dedicated to leadership and excellence in advancing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury through: Education – preparing the physicians and scientists of tomorrow while enhancing the skills of today’s health professionals Discovery – creating new knowledge in basic, translational, and patient-based research to improve human health Patient Care – providing effective, compassionate, expert care fo

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Inside Higher Education reports on a Modern Language Association (MLA) conference panel on conference sex.  Conference sex is, of course, sex which occurs at academic conferences.  Actually there was no sex of any kind at the conference sex panel although at least one panelist seemed prepared for such an eventuality since she was dressed in a bathrobe.  Of course, being dressed in a bathrobe can also indicate that one is about to go to sleep; such might very well represent a practical wardrobe s

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1492 - Reconquista: the emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. 1890 - Record 19′2″ alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny. 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian garrison surrenders at Port Arthur, China. “The Japanese mis-read the reasons for this event and get cocky. In forty years their perspective will be corrected. 1974 - President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPE

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Yesterday I introduced readers of this Weblog to Bob Peterson, a teacher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who organized a team of educators to develop the website: Social Studies Resources.  Bob Peterson is a veteran teacher, who with a group of Milwaukee-area teachers envisioned education in their own classroom being improved, and through their work help shape reform in the public schools of the USA.  Their group, beginning 19 years ago, started with real problems at the local level such as issues r

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Rethinking Schools: Calling for a Paradigm Shift, Nearly 20 Years and Counting

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The purpose of this post is to introduced to you an important new website that I think is very relevant to science educators.  It is the Social Studies Resources Website. I became aware of the Social Studies Resources website today when I received a newsletter from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  The SPLC provided grant money to group organized by Milwaukee Public School teacher Bob Peterson to develop a website designed to respond to criticism over the quality of social studies testb

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Social Studies Resources: An Important Website for Science Educators

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Michael Redd had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and the Milwaukee Bucks hung on for a 100-98 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night when Tim Duncan missed a layup with 3.8 seconds to go. …

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The Government Accountability Board is putting together a new web site and apparently the company doing the work used an image of Minneapolis in the header of the web site instead of Madison. The Journal Sentinel has more details… After reading the brief piece, a few things immediately caught my attention beyond the somewhat trite story about the wrong city skyline image being used on the website of a State web site. First, the fact that we as taxpayers are paying a million dollars for a we

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Wisconsin Sending $1 Million to a Company Who Doesn’t Know the Difference Between Madison and Minneapolis.