Link: The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers; NYTimes, 2010

This is for the teacher I met yesterday (who, not surprisingly - and, for reasonable people, not controversially - favors investing in the future, via education; & who hadn't yet seen the article): The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers

Future K-12 Ed. - Despite murky evidence it's effective, Engineering gets near-equal footing with Science in Draft Framework

New Warming101 blog post.

NAS Draft Science (&T&E) Standards Framework, on climate: better than current state science standards...

New Warming101 blog post.

Climate change K12 education in California

First of a series (which will get more local) - Climate change education in California public schools - current standards (link), over at my W101 blog.

Congratulations to CA Science Fair Product Science winner Samantha Beckett

Congratulations Samantha!
(After the recent Castillo hoax, when I saw the Union story Young scientist wins second state science fair prize I went to the science fair site to verify; and indeed, here she is. Well done, Samantha!)

From Sierra College to Tea Party - here's why students need education, not just training

The warmup speaker at Saturday's Tea Party Town Hall (Report#1 here) was a Sierra College student in Communications. He's young; at his age he's entitled to screw up, as we older codgers all have. And he did; but IMO the person at fault was the one who, having heard (of?) the student's class speech, invited him to deliver it at a public gathering.

Randy Olson, on teaching (and learning)

Really good teaching sooner or later involves a certain amount of pain. Whether it's the pain of tedious work or the pain of stinging criticism, seeking a totally pain-free education is kind of wishful thinking.
- from Don't Be Such a Scientist, p. 157.