We will! Today (Saturday March 28), from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. is Earth Hour. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a [...]
Archive for March 28th, 2009
Will You Be Doing “Earth Hour?”
Posted in Interesting on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forensic Science. A Sample.
Posted in Homeschooling, tagged curriculum, Homeschooling on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So just how does this not-going-to-school-thing work, you might wonder. As I mentioned, I have a friend who is facilitating a co-op homeschool class on Forensic Science and generously offered to include M., whom she’s known since she was a “bump.” Here’s what they did on Autopsy Day. Autopsy Lesson March 17, 2009 Objectives: – [...]
AKMuckraker – In Solidarity
Posted in Home Life, School, tagged election, mudflats, privacy on March 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Readers from back in the fall know that I was a little (ahem) obsessed, shall we say, about the election in general and a certain governor from Alaska in particular. Like bazillions of others, I was stunned by the announcement of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate and promptly entered “Sarah Palin” into the [...]
When in Doubt, Start a Committee
Posted in School, tagged advocacy, education, elementary school, high school, Jerry Weast, math, MCPS, middle school, montgomery county, parent advocacy on March 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Better yet, start a really, really big committee guaranteed to be positively paralyzed by procedure. How big? Big. Forty-four people big. That’s the size of the new MCPS K-12 Mathematics Joint Work Group. (And I thought the AEI Advisory Committee on Accelerated and Enriched Instruction was bad!) You can check out the membership here. A [...]
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