Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history Disgusting.
Google Books – The Minimalist Cooks Dinner
Nice preview of The Minimalists Cookbook. Thanks, Google!
Tax money used to mislead children for religious reasons
http://www.secular.org/node/255 “Whether we will teach our students the truth about science and history has now become a point of political contention, where religiously-based myths compete with reality and fact.”
Five educational resources for Teacher Appreciation Week
http://www.butterscotch.com/show/Five-Educational-Resources-For-Teacher-Appreciation-Week In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, Stacy Reed shares five helpful and informative resources online that can be used by students of all ages, both in the classroom and out.
Red Pandas: Adorable, Ancient Animals
http://snuzzy.com/red-pandas-adorable-ancient-animals
Librarian Chick
http://www.librarianchick.com/ Librarian Chick offers a list of hundreds upon hundreds of free educational resources for students, teachers, and learners of all ages.
Top 5 online mindmapping tools
http://www.butterscotch.com/show/Top-5-Online-Mindmapping-Tools Visualize your brainstorming sessions, your network, your genealogy, etc. with diagrams and flowcharts using one of these free online mind mapping tools. Stacy Reed shows us five free faves.
Librarian Chick 2.0 Release
I'm proud to announce the newly redesigned, Librarian Chick, a wiki that provides links to hundreds upon hundreds of the best free educational resources! By popular demand, Librarian Chick now has a Category Breakdown page so you can see the contents of each category separately. Navigation and layout make a bit more sense now and it's less cluttered. Thanks to
Texas Freedom Network Petition
http://www.tfn.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=2682&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS Politicians, stop dragging our children’s schools into the “culture wars”
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
The dumbing down of America, folks. From the page: AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican
Wikipedia by Rob Matthews
5000 pages, fully printed – Articles in the book are taken from Wikipedia’s featured articles.
The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfunctional Psychosociological Conditions
http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP073984414.pdf Gregory Paul’s paper based on his study, which links religion to immoral behavior.
Student’s God is Dead T-shirt prompts yearbook tussle
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100212/NEWS01/702129837&news01ad=1 Freedom of speech for minors and children too please, America?
Fate of Science Teacher With a Bible Divides an Ohio Town
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/education/20teacher.html From the page: “After an investigation, school officials notified Mr. Freshwater in June 2008 of their intent to fire him, but he asked for a pre-termination hearing, which has lasted more than a year and cost the school board more than a half-million dollars. … Last June, he filed a federal lawsuit against the school board seeking $1 million