Archive for August, 2009

This is just sad

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

The Federal government is offering states extra money if they do a number of things, including using data on student achievement in evaluating teachers. This is one response, from a New York City web log. There are arguments against differentiated pay for teachers within a school, but this doesn’t engage in, or with, any of [...]

Information graphic of the day

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

North Country Public Radio is a wonderful radio station that broadcasts throughout upstate New York. Because it’s quite mountainous, there are about 30 transmitters and translators on different frequencies throughout the region. This map provides a great graphic that allows you to quickly figure out which frequency (or sometimes frequencies) to try, depending on where [...]