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Big changes coming for Indiana teacher licensing?
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett is announcing today a plan to overhaul the state’s system for teacher licensure. The announcement is here, and there are three PDF… more →
Casting Out Nines
Big changes coming for Indiana teacher licensing?
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Robert wrote 4 months ago: Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett is announcing today a plan to overhaul the … more →
The blogging VPAA?
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Robert wrote 4 months ago: I was thinking over the session coming up at Blog Indiana by John Oak Dalton titled “Chancello … more →
A mathematician behind the moon landing
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Robert wrote 4 months ago: In the wake of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, here’s a nice piece from the Van … more →
On not paying for your kids' college
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Robert wrote 5 months ago: Meagan Francis has this “bad parent” column today in which she confesses that she has no … more →
A prayer for those taking final exams (bumped)
Robert wrote 7 months ago: We’ve finally made it to final exams week in the second semester of what seemed like the longe … more →
Four things I used to think about calculus, and what I've replaced them with
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Robert wrote 7 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I’ve been teaching calculus since 1993, when I first stepped into a Calcul … more →
Where the money for your calculus book goes
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Robert wrote 8 months ago: You too can own a massive house if you sell enough calculus books. There’s a new, five-story, … more →
Linkages, 29 December
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Robert wrote 11 months ago: The perils of graphing, from xkcd. Erin at Critical Mass claims that tenure is untenable and has alr … more →
Tough times?
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Robert wrote 11 months ago: Via Instapundit, here’s a letter from Soren Sorenson, chair of the University of Tennessee Dep … more →
Publicly exposing cheaters?
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: Is this going too far to punish and deter academic dishonesty? Texas A&M International Universit … more →
Accreditation nation
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: Higher education is awash with accrediting agencies, on the institutional level and sometimes on the … more →
Scary professors
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday on Twitter, I posted a “tweet” venting asking why it is that a student who kee … more →
Four questions to ask about tenure
Robert wrote 1 year ago: Over at the Young Mathematicians’ Network, I have an article today on four revealing questions … more →
New venture: Young Mathematicians' Network
Robert wrote 1 year ago: I’m happy to announce the start of a new blogging project that has been percolating for about … more →
Monday GTD moment: Scholarship and GTD
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: This is the third installment of Monday GTD Moment, where I take a post to blog about Getting Things … more →
Speaking of grading...
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: …it’s not really good to farm out your grading tasks to a person who is not an employee … more →
Monday GTD moment: Handling grading in GTD
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: This is the second installment of Monday GTD Moment, where I take a post to blog about Getting Thing … more →
Irony
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: Updated to add disclaimer: I don’t know whose car this is, or even if it belongs to a student … more →
iPod update: A new hope
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Robert wrote 1 year ago: So at the end of the comment thread on my iPod lust decision process about whether or not to buy a n … more →
