The power supply on my desktop PC has died on me, so I've been using Ubuntu on my laptop exclusively. I have not missed my windows machine while it has been out, although I have had an itch to play a little WoW. For everyday use, I think Ubuntu is great, but I still remember some pains getting to this point with my laptop. This included my graphics driver, my wireless, and installing Beryl/Emerald. After these hardships, I had become acquainted enough with using the CLI and everything was seamless! I am currently playing with mediawiki at work and am learning to set it up and edit. Lots of fun geekiness to be had!
Thursday, March 8, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Teacher fired for causing students to think.
An Evansville, IN teacher is fired for his innovative approaches in an inner city school. Well it worked and now that kids are motivated to learn so they gave him the pink slip. He has quite the local following from students and parents but it would be nice to get the world out there from more than just local news.
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I think the education system in the US is due for an overhaul. For something like this to happen because of 'No Child Left Behind' is ridiculous. Children need to be grouped together by intelligence progression needs to be based on competence in the subjects rather than age. Teachers unions need to be disassembled and superintendents need to stop running schools like corrupt CEO's. Teachers need to be paid based on performance. I feel we are heading down a slippery slope with our education system, and we are slipping and falling all the way down.
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