Archive for April, 2007
Blog Culture and Cultural Literacy
Some of you may have noticed the new theme I added to my blog a while back. I wanted something simpler. My old one was getting out of hand with the sidebar down a million miles and the bazillion banners, badges, and chicklets. What I have up now is really all it [...]
No Childhood Left Behind?
(This is a continuation of a previous blog)
Out here in California, the minions of teachers are skitterring and cramming for the California Standards Test April 30th.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has produced an arena where teachers are pressured to make kids score 75% or higher on this annual standardized test. The standards that comprise [...]“Meet the Robinsons”: Extending Walt’s Dream
Disney’s “Meet the Robinsons” doesn’t start out like a Disney wonder, but it ends that way.
If you can make it through the first 3/4 of the movie, you’ll be greatly rewarded (incidentally, I found that “Bridge to Terabithia” was the same way . . . is Disney using a formula here?)
The story is spotty at [...]
