Math problem problem

Are word problems not the answer?

A Nation at Risk

A good review article can be located here : http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/opinion/25fiske.html?th&emc=th

monty hall meets psychology

Is there a flaw in cognitive dissonance theory?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08tier.html?th&emc=th

Testing

another article on testing results that may be of interest to my readers :
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/education/04writing.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

NCLB Blog

Some discussion on NCLB .....

http://morethanascore.org/

FYI, The Author, Bob Murphy, who recently served as Director of Policy and Professional Practice for the Connecticut Education Association. He has recently retired from full time employment.

The Connecticut Education Association appears to be the sponsor of this blog. I am a bit new to blogging, but I am sure that many of the comments on this blog would be good starting points for thought or discussion.

dropping out

a very disturbing artricle on dropping out ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_re_us/high_school_grad_rates

focus and behaviorism

This article talks mostly about baseball, but the underlying psychology would be of interest in any field of endeavor .....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/opinion/01brooks.html?th&emc=th

Visual attention

The attached artice was just very, very interesting on how the brain is able to weed out what is important and what is not. Like note taking or memorization, we can only accept and process a certain amount of information as shown so visually here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01angi.html?th&emc=th