Statistics about US States
If I were looking for a place to open a business in the U.S., or a neighborhood to move my family to, I'd visit Statemaster. This site has facts and stats for U.S. States in just about every category you can think of. Want to know which State has the highest percentage of new houses? You'll find it here. How about the one with the most roller coasters per capita? Or the most Walmart stores? Or the most exports to Argentina? Or (and I have no idea how they found this out) the most residents who've lost their teeth? It's all here, and much more. This is a fun site that's easy to use, and whether you're looking for hard research or just interesting trivia, you can spend hours here. Besides statistical information, the site also has useful maps, and a detailed profile of each State.
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
EquMath: Math Lessons
MATH MADE EASY AT EQUMATH.NET
Math Lessons from Algebra to Differential Equations
Mathematics was never one of my strong suits in school. Where other students saw elegantly logical solutions to problems, I saw a morass of numbers that caused me to break out in a sweat. If I was in school today, I'd seek out EquMath.net ( http://equmath.net ). This site, created by mathematicians, has simple, easy-to-understand explanations of common math problems and concepts. There are no fancy graphics at this site, but you will find solid explanations to help you with algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and other areas of mathematics. This is a comprehensive site -- there are more than 3,700 pages of math explanations. If you click on "Useful Links" you'll find lots of other educational mathematics sites, too.
http://equmath.net/
Math Lessons from Algebra to Differential Equations
Mathematics was never one of my strong suits in school. Where other students saw elegantly logical solutions to problems, I saw a morass of numbers that caused me to break out in a sweat. If I was in school today, I'd seek out EquMath.net ( http://equmath.net ). This site, created by mathematicians, has simple, easy-to-understand explanations of common math problems and concepts. There are no fancy graphics at this site, but you will find solid explanations to help you with algebra, trigonometry, calculus, and other areas of mathematics. This is a comprehensive site -- there are more than 3,700 pages of math explanations. If you click on "Useful Links" you'll find lots of other educational mathematics sites, too.
http://equmath.net/
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Israel critic denied post at university
By Leonard Doyle in Washington
Published: 12 June 2007
A top American university has denied tenure to a prominent academic amid allegations of anti-Semitism and his defence of the Palestinian cause. continue...
Published: 12 June 2007
A top American university has denied tenure to a prominent academic amid allegations of anti-Semitism and his defence of the Palestinian cause. continue...
Paris Hilton thanks God for her prison sentence
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 12 June 2007
After an inglorious public career in which she has had her sex life paraded on the internet, appeared in a TV reality show, tried and failed to launch herself as a singer and gone to many, many paparazzi-filled Hollywood parties, Paris Hilton announced yesterday that she had found God and was now "a different person". continue...
Published: 12 June 2007
After an inglorious public career in which she has had her sex life paraded on the internet, appeared in a TV reality show, tried and failed to launch herself as a singer and gone to many, many paparazzi-filled Hollywood parties, Paris Hilton announced yesterday that she had found God and was now "a different person". continue...
Brown promises to avoid the mistakes that led to war in Iraq
By Andrew Grice and Ben Russell
Published: 12 June 2007
Gordon Brown has promised to prevent the "party political" use of intelligence material so that he would never repeat Tony Blair's mistake in taking Britain to war on a flawed prospectus. continue...
Published: 12 June 2007
Gordon Brown has promised to prevent the "party political" use of intelligence material so that he would never repeat Tony Blair's mistake in taking Britain to war on a flawed prospectus. continue...
India's air crews asked to 'battle the bulge'
By Andrew Buncombe in Delhi
Published: 12 June 2007
As every air traveler has been heard countless times, the stewards on board the flight are primarily there for everyone’s safety. And what flyer would dare risk breaching political correctness to admit they like their in-flight crew to look attractive? continue...
Published: 12 June 2007
As every air traveler has been heard countless times, the stewards on board the flight are primarily there for everyone’s safety. And what flyer would dare risk breaching political correctness to admit they like their in-flight crew to look attractive? continue...
Introduce a sugar line and a fat line on food packaging
Introduce a sugar line and a fat line on food packaging, similar to the Plimsoll Line on ships. This would provide a visual guide as to just how much sugar and fat there is in the product. Jenny Torr Comment on this idea
Diplomas Count, Full Access
Dear Educator:
The 2nd Annual Diplomas Count is here. Produced with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this eye-opening report is now available online at edweek.org. During our edweek.org Open House, you can access the whole report for FREE! The report examines college and career readiness and provides the most accurate and far-reaching analysis of high school graduation policies and trends. While you’re at it, be sure to check out some of our past reports and our most recent edition of Technology Counts.
Some things you shouldn’t miss in this year’s Diplomas Count:
Remember, our doors will be wide open through June 25. That means you’ll have access to everything our premium subscribers see daily for a full two weeks!
If you like what you see on edweek.org, get even more by adding a 4-week trial subscription to Education Week. This trial offer of 4 weeks of print and online access is available for only a short time at: www.edweek.org/go/4weektrial.
Tell your colleagues about the complete, FREE access to Diplomas Count and our Open House!
See you there,
Virginia B. Edwards
Editor and Publisher
The 2nd Annual Diplomas Count is here. Produced with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this eye-opening report is now available online at edweek.org. During our edweek.org Open House, you can access the whole report for FREE! The report examines college and career readiness and provides the most accurate and far-reaching analysis of high school graduation policies and trends. While you’re at it, be sure to check out some of our past reports and our most recent edition of Technology Counts.
Some things you shouldn’t miss in this year’s Diplomas Count:
- A national snapshot of graduating high school students in the Executive Summary.
- Feature stories, commentaries, and analyses such as:
- What it takes to graduate for the class of 2007 - By Sterling C. Lloyd
- ‘Soft Skills’ in Big Demand: Interest in teaching students interpersonal skills needed for success in life is on the rise. - By Catherine Gewertz
- Learning and Earning: An analysis that shows the relationship between education and pay. - By Christopher B. Swanson
- Access to Opportunity: Skilled workers for the jobs of the future are in short supply, risking further expansion of the American family-income divide. - By Anthony P. Carnevale
- Our totally new edweek maps tool allows you to map graduation rates by school district. You can see how your district compares to other districts in your area and nationwide. This great tool gives you access to incredible amounts of information right at your fingertips!
Remember, our doors will be wide open through June 25. That means you’ll have access to everything our premium subscribers see daily for a full two weeks!
If you like what you see on edweek.org, get even more by adding a 4-week trial subscription to Education Week. This trial offer of 4 weeks of print and online access is available for only a short time at: www.edweek.org/go/4weektrial.
Tell your colleagues about the complete, FREE access to Diplomas Count and our Open House!
See you there,
Virginia B. Edwards
Editor and Publisher
Monday, June 11, 2007
Why Teachers Quit
Published: May 1, 2007
It wasn’t her teenage students who drove Meghan Sharp out of teaching—it was the crippling inflexibility of her administrators.
All the innovative curriculum ideas and field trips she proposed to engage her 10th grade biology students were promptly shot down, and she left the profession after just two years.
“I still enjoyed teaching, but it was a constant battle with the administration,” says Sharp, who worked in an urban district in northern New Jersey. “I had to do things like submit weekly lesson plans. There was a lot of bureaucracy.” She now goes by her maiden name and asked Teacher Magazine not to identify her old school because she works as an education policy analyst. continue...
It wasn’t her teenage students who drove Meghan Sharp out of teaching—it was the crippling inflexibility of her administrators.
All the innovative curriculum ideas and field trips she proposed to engage her 10th grade biology students were promptly shot down, and she left the profession after just two years.
“I still enjoyed teaching, but it was a constant battle with the administration,” says Sharp, who worked in an urban district in northern New Jersey. “I had to do things like submit weekly lesson plans. There was a lot of bureaucracy.” She now goes by her maiden name and asked Teacher Magazine not to identify her old school because she works as an education policy analyst. continue...
Bush U-turn as 'surge' sceptic to oversee war
By David Usborne in New York
Published: 09 June 2007
The White House has sidelined the main proponent of "troop surge" in Iraq in what looks a tacit acceptance that, after several months, the much-vaunted strategy is not working.
Final responsibility for guiding President George Bush on conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been shifted from his National Security adviser, Stephen Hadley, and handed instead to his new war tsar, Lt-Gen Douglas Lute, who has long voiced doubts about the surge. continue...
Published: 09 June 2007
The White House has sidelined the main proponent of "troop surge" in Iraq in what looks a tacit acceptance that, after several months, the much-vaunted strategy is not working.
Final responsibility for guiding President George Bush on conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been shifted from his National Security adviser, Stephen Hadley, and handed instead to his new war tsar, Lt-Gen Douglas Lute, who has long voiced doubts about the surge. continue...
The wrath of 2007: America's great drought
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 11 June 2007
America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water. continue...
Published: 11 June 2007
America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water. continue...
101 Really Useful Websites
The net's not just about eBay and MySpace. The ingenious sites here can transform your life in the real world. Want to be first in line for gig tickets, find free parking or get paid to shop? It's all just a click away
Compiled by Rebecca Armstrong, Rhodri Marsden, Abigail Outhwaite and Jimmy Lee Shreeve
Published: 11 June 2007
www.hitflip.co.uk
Swap unwanted DVDs, games, books and CDs on this site that uses credits - " flips" - as currency. Users receive flips when trading items with other Hitflip members. Actually super-simple to use.
continue...
Compiled by Rebecca Armstrong, Rhodri Marsden, Abigail Outhwaite and Jimmy Lee Shreeve
Published: 11 June 2007
www.hitflip.co.uk
Swap unwanted DVDs, games, books and CDs on this site that uses credits - " flips" - as currency. Users receive flips when trading items with other Hitflip members. Actually super-simple to use.
continue...
Why the British love nothing more than a current pun
The pun, especially the bad pun, is so embedded in our national psyche that it is folly to deny it. Even if we make an accidental pun, we draw attention to it
Published: 11 June 2007
A BBC radio producer once told me a sad story. He had been asked at short notice, when he was already very busy, to put together half an hour of jollity to fill a gap in the coming Easter radio schedule. Even though under great pressure, he had managed to do so, but had signified his displeasure by giving the programme the worst possible name he could think of, namely "Easter Eggstra".
The executive producer had taken the rough tape of the programme away to listen to, and had rung the producer to say he liked it.
"And loved the title! Brilliant!" continue...
Install kitchen storage units that double as dishwashers
Install kitchen storage units that double as dishwashers. Put dishes in in
the cabinets dirty, press a button and they are washed and dried right
where they belong.
Michael Katz
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the cabinets dirty, press a button and they are washed and dried right
where they belong.
Michael Katz
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