{"id":6155,"date":"2012-04-18T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T07:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/18\/links-for-2012-04-18\/"},"modified":"2012-04-18T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T07:50:39","slug":"links-for-2012-04-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/18\/links-for-2012-04-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2012-04-18"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blog\/article\/00003435\/'>What&#8217;s up in the solar system in April 2012 &#8211; The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society<\/a>\n<p>Lest you get too depressed about the mothballing of the Space Shuttles, a roundup of all the cool space probes out there producing real science.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/17\/yes-i-took-my-ninth-grader-on-a-college-tour-and-it-was-worth-it\/'>Yes, I Took My Ninth Grader on a College Tour (and It Was Worth It) &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>\n<p>The purpose of bringing busloads of middle-school children to campuses is not to emphasize a particular place. Mr. O&#8217;Hara says he downplays the names of particular campuses. They visit student centers, libraries and dorms, take in a varsity basketball game, and meet with college students who grew up in Oyster Bay. Along the way, Mr. O&#8217;Hara and guidance counselors show the eighth graders the amazing experiences that await curious, motivated teenagers &#8212; including those whose parents didn&#8217;t graduate from college. I think of it this way: For quite a few boys and girls, high school is a chore to be endured. They&#8217;re likely to do better if they sense that college is different &#8212; it&#8217;s a chance to pursue real interests. Think of it in culinary terms. When you take certain children to a restaurant buffet, it&#8217;s a good idea to let them walk them past the dessert table; that gives them some incentive to gobble down the broccoli.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/7822883\/a-teacher-puts-lee-hirsch-new-documentary-context'>A teacher puts Lee Hirsch&#8217;s new documentary in context &#8211; Grantland<\/a>\n<p>Documentaries about school, though, are a different matter, particularly documentaries that seek to change social policies and institutions. Bully clearly wants to play a leading role in eliminating the practice of bullying. As a human being who believes that the world could be more compassionate and tolerant, I support the film&#8217;s agenda. As a teacher who sees kids every day, I&#8217;m somewhat alarmed by the information the filmmakers left out or just decided not to deal with. I liked Bully, but I wanted it to be both more expansive and more focused.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s up in the solar system in April 2012 &#8211; The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society Lest you get too depressed about the mothballing of the Space Shuttles, a roundup of all the cool space probes out there producing real science. Yes, I Took My Ninth Grader on a College Tour (and It&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/04\/18\/links-for-2012-04-18\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2012-04-18<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}