Category: Education

A Right Denied is a slide deck from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It’s full of stats that paint a pretty bleak picture about education in the United States. Some of the slides explain that there are internal inequities, where students in certain areas (or of certain races!) get worse educations than others.…

Someone recently asked the question about what superpower their friends would like to have, could they have just one. It seems like the majority of responses were about wanting to read the thoughts of others. I wanted teleportation, I think. I’ve thought about it a bit since, and I think reading the thoughts of others…

Yahoo! reported that Aya Yasuda was disqualified from her Olympic luge event because her sled was over weight. The story said that there was a “complex formula” to use to calculate the amount of ballast lugers can add to make up the difference between their own body weight and a maximum, which is different for…

Students are falling behind in math skills