note: if you would like to know about any rebroadcasts of the T-Shirt program in future weekends, use the RSS feed. See
http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/03/booktv-notification/
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The weekend schedule for CSpan-2 is at
http://www.booktv.org/schedule/ .
A big chunk of time this weekend will be live coverage of the National Book Festival, which means the scheduling is more flexible and we don’t have descriptions of author presentations [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Book TV: Travels of a T-Shirt, and National Book Festival
September 29, 2006 – 11:23 am
Wikipedia, ID-creationism, and “banned books”
September 28, 2006 – 10:01 am
I emailed a Wikipedia insider about the recent flap over ID folk inserting Of Pandas and People into the list of “banned books” in an article on that topic. His reply includes relevant links, as well as a link for Casey Luskin’s post ”putting Wikipedia on notice” about the anti-ID bias in Wikipedia science articles. (!)
The [...]
UK anti-evolutionists seek to lure parents with new website
September 25, 2006 – 10:28 pm
see http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_060925evolut.shtml
racist revisionism in MD politics
September 24, 2006 – 11:51 am
At People For the American Way, the Right Wing Watch project reports on the radio ad in Maryland which was ‘apparently intended to boost the Senate candidacy of Michael Steele, [by urging] African Americans to stop voting for Democrats, because, among other things, “Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws” and “Democrats started the [...]
Florida law: history is fact–not constructed
September 24, 2006 – 11:23 am
After this bill was passed by the Florida legislature and was waiting for Jeb Bush’s signature, I posted these pages from the omnibus 2006 Florida Education Law [pdf file] to a couple of email lists that I am on.
I have recently received requests from a couple people who want to make this available to their [...]
six literal days
September 19, 2006 – 10:42 pm
Razib at Gene Expression posts a link to this story about Evolution & Creationism in Christian colleges.
The article reports on 2 Christian colleges with differing policies on teaching about evolution. One Professor explains: “I teach that the universe was created in six literal days. We believe that the Genesis account refers to literal 24-hour periods.”
Can [...]
Demand for elimination of evolution references from Leakey collections (!)
September 18, 2006 – 5:03 pm
Wired News:
By Lakshmi Sandhana
02:00 AM Sep, 18, 2006
Religious critics of evolution have trained their sights on one of the world’s pre-eminent fossil exhibits — Louis and Richard Leakey’s extensive skeletal collections illuminating the origins of man.
Evangelical Christians in Kenya are demanding that the exhibit at Nairobi’s National Museum edit out references to human evolution in [...]
on the character of Social Studies in the US
September 17, 2006 – 5:42 pm
For the BookTV program featured in the post right before this one, I also posted a notice to the TRSE email list, maintained by CUFA (the College and University Faculty Assembly), which is associated with the NCSS. When I post such things to that list, I usually get private emails from CUFA members thanking me for the information, and [...]
Antietam
September 17, 2006 – 3:08 pm
Re-airing on Saturday, December 23 at 11:15 am and Tuesday, December 26 at 4:00 am [ET]
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7367&schedID=468
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note: if you would like to know about rebroadcasts in future weekends, use the RSS feed. See
http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/03/booktv-notification/
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I did not intend to record this, since it looked like one of those “reenactors” events that I generally don’t see as worthy [...]
让我看这样行不行啊 - language test - ignore this post
September 16, 2006 – 10:52 pm
让我看这样行不行啊
just ignore this post, unless you want to drop me a comment about whether you see Chinese characters on your system or not.
I will be looking at this on different systems that don’t have language fonts installed to see how the characters display on those screens.
and what about right-to-left script? tests: מַדָּע
from Aljazeera: خوان مصر [...]
Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide as Test for science education
September 15, 2006 – 11:49 am
Does Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide give us a vehicle for considering, and improving, the quality of science education for the population of non-scientists?
Wells’s Promiscuously Incorrect Guide as High-Stakes Test for science education
September 15, 2006 – 11:02 am
first, a little fun with Wells’s title, and then to the point of this post:
The title: Wells’s book is part of Regnery’s series of “Politically Incorrect Guides” to whatever hot-button topics will sell product to their right-wing readership.
The book is getting thorough critical review on the Panda’s Thumb.
A number reviewers and commenters have noted that [...]
Teach the controversies — YES ! Critical thinking — YES!
September 12, 2006 – 6:13 pm
update 9/14/06: see Ed Brayton: ID Proposals in Ohio and Michigan Postponed
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Nick Matzke on The Panda’s Thumb (see here and here) has posted news on the proposals in Ohio for student “debates” and “trials” on evolution vs. ID-creationism. The kinds of questions that are addressed in true debates and trials are not the kinds of [...]
wikis and/as textbooks
September 12, 2006 – 2:35 pm
An article in Teachers College Press reports on the lack of adequate textbooks in California’s public schools — especially in financially less well-off communities. The authors have been sharply critical of high-stakes consequences being imposed by NCLB on students in schools without the resources needed for an education that measures up to the state’s standards.
Meanwhile, [...]
Lynne Cheney vs. Howard Zinn; and an invitation to participate in an online history project
September 9, 2006 – 12:46 am
Please join in developing a collaborative wiki alphabet book of Great American Accomplishments. Please add your own entries, or add to the entries that are already here! Click here for the Index page. Why would I (or anybody) do this? Here’s an explanation of where the idea for this wiki comes from:
During an interview that was [...]
YAF’s “Battleplan” for Conservative Campus Activism
September 8, 2006 – 7:22 pm
added June 26, 2008: I see now that the post I was reporting here, and linked below, has disappeared.
The YAF page is now at http://yaf.org/students/activists/battleplan/index.cfm . As of now, it says
The 2008-2009 Campus Conservative Battleplan will be released soon.
Please check back for availability.
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Coming soon to a campus near you …
New Guide Offers Students Ways [...]
Book-TV notification
September 8, 2006 – 11:25 am
Now you can use this blog to get notification of when BookTV programs I have recommended to my colleagues are being re-aired.
