cheating doesn’t pay

http://chronicle.com/article/High-Tech-Cheating-on-Homework/64857/ It probably helps that he shares some crucial findings from his study with his students. Homework cheaters, he showed, are much more likely to get C’s and D’s on exams than those who work out the assignments on their own.

calculus camp

My dear friend Jinna is an amazingly passionate and smart teacher who runs a calculus camp for her students to prep them for the AP.  They go to Big Bear for a few days, play crazy games, and…study calculus ’round the clock.  She teaches in a high-poverty school that didn’t start offering the Calc AP…

spencer rtg

Thank you Papi Spencer: http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=14887 And don’t knock that “lounge with mailboxes and a kitchen.”  Absolutely critical.

hooray elisa

Check the latest Educational Researcher for some very nice things about my wonderful colleague and next-door-office-neighbor Elisa Abes’ work on pg. 135.

going test optional

At Ursinus College: http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Explore-Shades-of/64758/ Who knew that Humanities could run in the black? http://chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Really-Do/64740/

new journal and vap position

Thanks Doc KAG for alerting me to this new APA journal on Asian Am psychology: http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/aap/ We’re hiring for a visiting asst. professor position for next fall to teach some masters’ courses, drop a line if you know anyone who could be a good fit/for more info.

parent-teacher conferences

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/nyregion/20bigcity.html?hp

the plot to kill God

It’s funny that I saw professional atheist Christopher Hitchens speak yesterday because I started reading an absolutely fascinating book, the Plot to Kill God by Paul Froese.  It’s basically how the Soviet Union launched an unprecedented campaign to wipe out–literally exterminate–religious belief…and how religious belief somehow survived and persisted over the decades.  Some funny things–to…

mr. rodgers, 1950s techie

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/17pittsburgh.html I always like it when my mom speaks fondly of 1970s-80s era PBS children’s programming.

some stuff i’m writing/quoting

The students in Kim’s (2006) work negotiated the contradiction [between religious universalism and ethnic separatism] through a variety of means.  Among them were recognizing that students of other races could go to other campus fellowships and noting that they could unite with Christians of other races through occasional events held by a campus-wide coalition of…