I’m listening now to a fascinating presentation by a book author who has spent substantial time with young people in the Middle East. The book is:
Cohen, Jared. Children of Jihad a Young American’s Travels among the Youth of the Middle East. New York: Gotham Books, 2007.
Information about the book, including library holdings in local areas, [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Children of Jihad
December 30, 2007 – 8:47 pm
history, social memory, identity
December 30, 2007 – 3:54 pm
An inquiry posted on the xmca list asks for bibliographic references to help a student who
… wants to study how memories of significant events (in this case events during the period of political violence here during the 80s) are transmitted between the generation that experienced them and the generation following. He also would [...]
U Penn prof: “Down with fractions!”
December 26, 2007 – 10:05 am
PHILADELPHIA — A few years ago, Dennis DeTurck, an award-winning professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, stood at an outdoor podium on campus and proclaimed “Down with fractions!”
“Fractions have had their day, being useful for by-hand calculation,” DeTurck said as part of a 60-second lecture series. “But in this [...]
Norris (w/ Huckabee) advocates Bible as public school textbook
December 21, 2007 – 12:56 pm
On The Darwin Report blog, Chuck Norris has been named its Creationist of the Month Club Mr. December 2007.
Embedded in that post (and in this one, below) is a YouTube video in which Chuck Norris — and Mike Huckabee chiming in to support — advocates adoption of the Bible as a textbooks in public schools.
Although [...]
TX Advisory council recommends approval for creationism master’s degree
December 21, 2007 – 12:33 pm
The proposal for Texas approval for the Institute for Creation Research to offer a masters degree in science education (reported here earlier) has been approved by the advisoy council.
Science Ed master’s degree from “creation science” institute?
December 17, 2007 – 12:08 pm
Inside Higher Ed reports that the Institute for Creation Research is seeking approval from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to offer an online masters degree in science education, and that the Texas Board’s decision might be complicated by as state supreme court ruling that warned the board against applying secular values in the accreditation [...]
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker
December 16, 2007 – 1:15 pm
from BookTV.org (ncludes links for purchasing the book, or viewing RealPlayer recording of the program):
Richard Kahlenberg talks about the life and career of Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1984 and president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1974 to 1997. Commentary is provided by Eugenia Kemble [...]
teaching literature at West Point
December 16, 2007 – 1:08 pm
Elizabeth Samet talked about her book Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Elizabeth Samet, English professor at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point details the ways she teaches literature to her students who are going to war.
