Showing posts with label Gifted and Talented Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gifted and Talented Education. Show all posts
Sunday, August 5, 2018

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

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Nothing has changed in the fifty years since Richard Hofstadter chronicled the history of anti-intellectualism. The warning bell may seem m...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Tarzan, the Amazons, and my Mother

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Public education ain’t what it used to be.  It is a law of economics that collectivism is inefficient, an entropic downward path. So, it is...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Elisha S. Loomis and the Pythagorean Proposition

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The fact that over 300 proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem are known and an infinite number are possible is in and of the nature of the unive...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

2017 Austin Energy Regional Science Fair

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For the sixth consecutive year, I judged the middle school and high school exhibits in Behavioral Sciences in the Austin Energy Regional Sci...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

Austin Energy Regional Science Festival

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This was my fifth year judging the projects entered in the Behavioral and Social Sciences category.  The field was crowded. Eight teams of ...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Ahmed Mohamed Doesn't Live Here Any More

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A good news story polarizes friends. Ahmed Mohamed and his family are moving to Qatar after his meeting the President of the United States f...
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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Two Books on Fermat’s Last Theorem

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By the fifth grade, kids learn enough arithmetic and geometry to appreciate the challenge in Fermat’s Last Theorem.  FLT stood for about 35...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

My Grandmother and Science

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I came home from school to discover that one of my science books was out, next to the couch.  My grandmother had been reading it. She proba...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

100,000 Page Views

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This blog earned its 100,000th page view on December 10.  The Google metrics are somewhat questionable. I read through all of the numbers pr...