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  • Algebra and AP: No, Not For Everyone

    Number of comments: 10
    Jay Mathews, the outspoken Washington Post writer and frequent advocate for increased early enrollment in algebra courses, apparently needs eyes in the back of his head this week because of the backpedaling he’s having to do on his previously-held assertions. To Mathews’ considerable credit, though, he’s the first in line admitting [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 1:46pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • White America…

    Number of comments: 8
    White America! I could be one of your kids. White America! Little Eric looks just like this. White America! Erica loves my shit. I go to TRL, look how many hugs I get! Look at these eyes, baby blue, baby just like yourself, If they were brown Shady lose, Shady sits on the shelf, But Shady’s cute, Shady [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 1:07am EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Why We Love Palin.

    Number of comments: 10
    Amazingly enough, this is a post that has to do both with giftedness and politics. I’ve speculated for awhile about just what it is about Sarah Palin that people seem to love, and love so vociferously.  I think I’ve figured out just what it is. It’s not experience, because if Obama’s experience [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2008, 1:09pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Break the Rules. Just Do it Well.

    Number of comments: 10
    Ah, the new school year looms… I found out that I’m teaching freshmen next year (insert evil cackles of glee right about now), but one of the reasons I’m looking forward to it a great deal is that a largish chunk of those pee-wees should, in the fullness of time, be [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 3:47pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • We’ll Always Have Paris…

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    Oh, if only I had written this brilliant post. This is a delightful excerpt from John Cates’ blog, www.johncates.blogspot.com Saturday, August 02, 2008 Celebrity President? Over My Dumb Body. Ever since Barack Obama announced his bid for president, I’ve been paying pretty close attention to our candidates and what they mean to me [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 1:43pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Why CAN’T We Prosecute Bush for Murder?

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m asking this as a serious question — and so is former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi.  As you may remember, Bugliosi was the prosecutor responsible for putting Charles Manson behind bars, and his record as an L.A. Country prosecutor is equally impressive: out of 106 cases, he won 105, and out [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2008, 2:35pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Homeschoolers, Help Me!

    Number of comments: 10
    I saw this cry of help over at Alasandra and the Cats, and because I love Alasandra’s blog, I thought, “How could I resist?” Long story short, HW over at I’m Just Sayin’ published a post last week in which she expressed some concerns about homeschooling: I know a few homeschooling families [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 1:55am EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Some People are Idiots.

    Number of comments: 4
    Okay, the first idiot I’d like to talk about this week is — who else? — Michael Savage. For those of you who don’t know, Michael Savage, a conservative radio talk-show host, recently made a series of somewhat incendiary remarks regarding children with autism last Wednesday. Accusing medical professionals and Big [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2008, 8:29pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Good Option for Gifted Kids

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s not exactly a revelation of stunning originality to point out that if you’re the parent of a child who basically doesn’t fit the school system’s age-grade lockstep plan, it can be challenging to fit an education to your child. There’s no sense in trying to fit your child to [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2008, 1:18pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Perfect, Charming, Adorable, Delightfully Klutzy

    Number of comments: 10
    I’ve been enjoying myself this morning. A few weeks ago, I ran across a term I hadn’t heard of in the one-star Amazon.com reviews of Twilight, a term used to describe Bella Swan, the heroine of the series: “Mary Sue.” Okay, bias alert time: because the series is notable for [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2008, 3:59pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Let’s Get Rid of All the Teachers

    Number of comments: 10
    Recently, there’s been a serious budget problem in the state where we live — a situation by no means unique.  Specifically, the problem is a major budget shortfall, also known as “that thing which happens when you elect a moron,” but who’s counting? This means many things for education in this [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2008, 12:43pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • What’s Your Personal Cr** List?

    Number of comments: 10
    Someone on a message board I frequent brought up a fascinating issue.  Like me, “Poster With Headscarf” (not her real pseudonym) is one of those parents who is rigorous about sheltering her kids from the media, including Disney — even the Disney she calls “happy Disney,” i.e., Robin Hood or The [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2008, 3:08pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Dangerous Literature

    Number of comments: 10
    I  wrote last week about Stephanie Meyer’s epically disastrous vampire novel Twilight, but I’ve been thinking more and more about the issue of bad literature and how it relates to schooling and homeschooling. Despite my monastic moniker, we’re not homeschooling for religious reasons as much as intellectual ones.  In what’s probably an [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2008, 2:01pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Earning the Wrath of Teenage Girls Everywhere

    Number of comments: 10
    Okay, I’ll say it: I hate Twilight. For those of you who aren’t regularly around teenagers, you might have seen this book cover on your way through Borders or Barnes and Noble: Twilight is a publishing phenomenon, to say the least — it’s sold something over 3.5 million copies, even muscling out [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2008, 12:39am EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • VERY Bad Socialization

    Number of comments: 10
      Well, for any of you would-be elementary teachers out there, there should be a new position opening soon at Port St. Lucie’s Morningside Elementary School.  VERY soon.  In case you want to inquire about the position, their number (listed on the Internet) is 772-337-6730. According to a story that broke May [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2008, 6:32pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • The S Word

    Number of comments: 10
    Sorry I haven’t been posting for awhile — family issues, basically. Anyhow, I thought this week I’d return to a favorite topic for homeschoolers, specifically the S word: socialization. See, like every other homeschooler on the face of the planet, I’ve been asked the “What about socialization?” question, but (possibly) unlike every [...]
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    Posted: May 18, 2008, 8:53pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • “AP Sounds Fun, But Can I Take My Doll?”

    Number of comments: 10
    Did you ever read one of those news stories about, say, nineteen-year-old college professors and wonder to yourself (among other things), How did her parents manage to find a program willing to accommodate her? Or how about, How did her parents ever manage not to get treated like they were a [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2008, 11:14pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • It’s Not the Shoe, It’s Not the Foot, It’s Just the Fit

    Number of comments: 8
    I’ve been busy the last few weeks — around the Melk household, it seems as if April is not just the cruelest month, but the busiest. Something’s been frustrating me.  You know how you read those stories of the nineteen-year-old college professor who went to college at age ten?  Yeah, what I [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2008, 2:40pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Um…duh.

    Number of comments: 5
    Yet more proof that mediocrity gets a LOOOOOOT of airtime in this country.  In this clip from Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?,  the former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler struggles with the question, “Budapest is the capital of what European country?”  Among other gems… Pickler admits that she thought [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2008, 8:37pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Why Gifted Students Hate School, Part Three

    Number of comments: 10
    I’m going to come out and say what someone should’ve come right out and admitted a long time ago: Lots of teachers just plain hate gifted kids. I’ve been reading The Fountainhead lately.  Lest anyone think this is the moment when I whip off all disguises and reveal myself as Adso the [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2008, 11:39pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Why Gifted Students Still Hate School, Part II

    Number of comments: 10
    I posted last time about my theory about why gifted students hate school (short answer: scary teachers) and added, somewhat mysteriously, that I would write more about the issue. Here it is, in brief: Gifted students hate school because school is a sucking quagmire of mediocrity. Okay, I know this hardly qualifies [...]
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    Posted: April 05, 2008, 8:25pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Why Gifted Students Hate School

    Number of comments: 10
    The ever-thoughtful and provocative Shaun over at Red Sea School, whose blogs about homeschooling her gifted daughter Violet are always entertaining to read, posted a compelling entry the other day about scary teacher stories . If you have a gifted child, especially if you have a way gifted child, you probably [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2008, 10:27pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Oh, Crap. An English Teacher Who Can’t Spell

    Number of comments: 10
    It’s times like these that I seriously have to wonder what the hell my profession’s coming to.  As many folks know, I’m both a teacher and a homeschooler, which is sort of like being a meat-eating vegan or a talented version of Lindsay Lohan: not really a paradox so much [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2008, 10:58pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Thank God Satire Isn’t Dead

    Just ran across this blog: Stuff White People Like.  An excerpt from entry #88, “St. Patrick’s Day”: Most of the time, white people consider celebrations of European heritage to be racist unless they omit large swathes of the 16th through 20th centuries. But since the Irish never engaged in colonialism and were [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2008, 8:37pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Um, You’re an English Teacher.

    Number of comments: 9
    I read this article from the Washington Post on an enterprising English teacher’s quest to achieve national board certification.  Now, full disclosure here: I have never once entertained the idea of NBC, mostly because of two reasons:  1. My state pays a laughable amount in recompense for NBC, and 2. It’s a [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2008, 11:34am EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Don’t Know Much About His-to-ry…

    Number of comments: 5
    An interesting post at the Education Gadfly begins, “There are sound ways to encourage more students to enroll in AP classes. But the tack of Seattle’s Roosevelt High School, which will require all its sophomores to take at least one AP course next year, is not one of them.”  No kidding. For the [...]
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    Posted: March 15, 2008, 11:10pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Barack Obama is Black? Who Knew?

    Number of comments: 2
    Great video from Instapundit!  [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 9:32pm EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • Smile, You’re on YouTube

    Number of comments: 5
    Joanne Jacobs just raised one of my major teacher nightmares: YouTube videos of teachers losing control of their classrooms and resorting to shouts, threats, phone calls to the office, all while most of the students look on somewhat disdainfully. Truly a teacher’s worst nightmare.  Several of the commentators on Jacobs’ blog raised [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2008, 12:08am EDT
    by adsoofmelk

  • In Praise of Failure

    Number of comments: 10
     A long time ago, I had a friend named Bill Nothisrealname.  Bill was one of those guys — and there’s always one of those in practically every high school — who was just a genius at really everything he did.  A Rubik’s Cube nut, Bill could spin that thing into [...]
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    Posted: March 09, 2008, 12:17am EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • More Carnival of Homeschooling!

    Henry Cate is promoting Phase 2 of the Carnival of Homeschooling submissions of images.  Click here! [...]
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    Posted: March 06, 2008, 9:20pm EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • Pot vs. Kettle

    Number of comments: 1
     Johnathan Gay, over at Cyberhillbilly, points out something I saw in a comment on Perez Hilton last night — that Hillary’s conclusion to the Texas debate was lifted practically verbatim from a scene in the book/film Primary Colors. Wow.  Given that the movie was based on Joe Klein’s book, which was [...]
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    Posted: February 24, 2008, 10:25am EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • Why Hillary Will Lose

    I don’t usually blog about politics, but I had to respond to the standing ovation Hillary Clinton received at the end of the debate with Obama and state this unequivocally:   Hillary has thrown away her best assets as a public speaker and potential Presidential candidate: her capacity for apparent candor, warmth, and [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2008, 9:39pm EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • In Praise of Cr@p Fiction

    Number of comments: 2
    Renae over at Life Nurturing Education had this wonderful idea that actually kind’ve embarrassed me, but I’ll tell about that in a sec.  In response to a friend asking her what she was reading, Renae offered to share in a cool way that I’m passing on right now: Here are the rules: Pick up [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2008, 10:35pm EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • University of Google

    Number of comments: 2
    I got in a debate with a student the other day over an item on a standardized test in my mystery state that involved reading a somewhat obscure form of reference material.  It wasn’t a chart of planetary viewing times, but let’s say for laughs and fun that it was.  The [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2008, 8:26pm EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • Invisibly Gifted - The Problem of Being Profoundly Gifted, But Not in Math

    Number of comments: 10
    Switched-on-Mom’s post “There’s Gifted, and Then There’s Profoundly Gifted” got me thinking.  It’s frustrating. If you’re a parent of a child like the profoundly gifted math whiz in the Jodie Foster film Little Man Tate, the world must seem full of options, not the least of which is that people tend to [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2008, 7:31am EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • If You Were a Girl in the 70s

    Okay, completely, completely off the topic of anything this blog usually addresses, but I saw this and thought that it might be a blast from the past for some people. Love’s Baby Soft perfume!  “Dynamite” magazine that you got only from school… Click and see. [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2008, 5:01pm EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • Colorado Scientist Homeschools Kid in Science

    Number of comments: 2
    I just found this — albeit tardily; it was posted in June of ‘07 — on a blog called Astronomy Buff, called “Why I’m Homeschooling My Kid in Science Next Year.”  But enough of me.  Let’s let “Tony” speak for himself here: My 7th grade son is a very good student, gets [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2008, 8:14am EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • All Over the Map

    Number of comments: 2
    Mitchell over at Fear of Ignorance raised some hackles with his homeschooling commentary — one meant deliberately to provoke and charge up debate, which it did (to my great enjoyment).  Out of the comment conversation that followed, I started thinking about the issue of being all over the map with regard to [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2008, 3:51pm EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • Blogrolling for Fun

    I’ve really enjoyed the Carnival of Homeschooling at Red Sea School, not the least reason for which being that it’s really the tasty world buffet of blog experiences — the opportunity to sample ideas and feedback from a huge variety of sources.  I enjoyed the moral issues raised in the [...]
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    Posted: January 10, 2008, 11:15pm EST
    by adsoofmelk

  • Jaded

    What in the heck can you do with a Hannah Montana doll? Sorry.  I should’ve been more clear. What the heck can you do with a Hannah Montana doll that doesn’t violate the laws of ethics, common decency, state statutes, or basic sanitation? We got a Hannah Montana doll recently as a gift.  Staring [...]
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    Posted: January 04, 2008, 2:14pm EST
    by adsoofmelk
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