Textbook Publishers Profiting from Students’ Loss
Tim Paulson is a New York-based educational publishing professonal. He was good enough to give us an insider’s view of the textbook industry.
Not suprising, given my public highschool experience. Though it is worse at the Catholic schools, not only are the textbooks crap but they mostly 20-30 years old.
From the Cryptonomicon The Buisness Plan.
From the Cryptonomicon The Buisness Plan.
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit or “Tools for skeptical thinking.”
What skeptical thinking bolls down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and -especially important- to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion follows from the premise or starting point and whether that premise is true.
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit or “Tools for skeptical thinking.”
What skeptical thinking bolls down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and -especially important- to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion follows from the premise or starting point and whether that premise is true.
theora.org where Ogg will meet video.
theora.org where Ogg will meet video.
Flash Stickmen Fight archive.
Flash Stickmen Fight archive.
Open Source Web Design kinda more generic version of Blog Skins