Confessions of a Community College Dean: Remedial Levels “[T]he CCRC found that the single strongest predictor of student success that’s actually under the college’s control — so I’m ignoring gender and income of student, since we take all comers — is length of sequence. The shorter the sequence, the better they do. The worst thing… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-09
Month: April 2011
Great Moments in Campus Visits
It’s college admissions season, which means a steady influx of high-school seniors thinking about coming here next year, making campus visits. Most of these students sit in on at least one class, to get an idea of what it’s like. Which occasionally leads to odd things, but nothing stranger than what just happened: a prospective… Continue reading Great Moments in Campus Visits
Links for 2011-04-08
How Much is a Dragon Worth? – Michael Noer – Backslash – Forbes “To silence the skepticism and to give fans of the list some idea of just how deep the rabbit hole goes, I’ve decided to flash a little bit of imaginary ankle and walk through a typical Fictional 15 investigation, in this case… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-08
Thursday Action Toddler Blogging 040711
A shot from this morning, before SteelyKid had gotten dressed: Why is she balanced precariously on the arm of that chair, you ask? So she could do this, of course:
What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics, Now Streaming
A few weeks ago, I gave a talk based on How to Teach Physics to Your Dog for the University of Toledo’s Saturday Morning Science program. At that time, their local PBS affiliate recorded the talk, for use on their very nice streaming video site, Knowledgestream.org. My talk is now up, and the video is… Continue reading What Every Dog Should Know About Quantum Physics, Now Streaming
Links for 2011-04-07
Revenue Streams 2010 « Whatever “In my continuing quest to demystify things related to the business of writing, at least inasmuch as they relate to me, today I am going to talk revenue streams. As many of you know, I am a huge proponent of writers having multiple revenue streams, so that when one of… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-07
“This Union, Is There Gonna Be Meetings?”
I’m deep in editing mode at the moment, and faintly depressed at the number of words I have managed to remove by changes like turning “was [verb]ing ” to “[verb]ed.” It’s a tedious and labor-intensive process that is weirdly exhausting– all I’m doing is sitting in a cafe somewhere reading text with a red pen… Continue reading “This Union, Is There Gonna Be Meetings?”
Links for 2011-04-06
The Blog : How to Get Your Book Published in 6 (Painful) Steps : Sam Harris “The process of getting a nonfiction book published by a mainstream publisher–as distinct from an academic press, or a smaller, independent publisher–is quite straightforward. This is not to say that most people understand this process, or that success is… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-06
Links for 2011-04-05
Surviving the World – Lesson 921 – Offense I’m offended. (tags: comics surviving-world pictures culture silly) The birth of electromagnetism (1820) | Skulls in the Stars “It is oddly fitting that the birth of electromagnetism, and an entirely new direction in physics, started with the tiniest twitch of a compass needle. In the year 1820,… Continue reading Links for 2011-04-05
Does the Regular Season Matter?
This past weekend, I ended up hearing sports-radio pinheads holding forth proudly about their ignorance of college basketball. The justification for this is that “the regular season doesn’t matter,” since the NCAA tournament is single-elimination, and lesser-known teams keep ending up making big runs in the tournament. Since there’s apparently no way in their world… Continue reading Does the Regular Season Matter?