Edutainer
Education is fun!
In Goyal’s vision of American education, students’ passion would be the driver of education, limited only by their teachers’ ability to facilitate creativity, innovation and critical thinking.
(Source: teach.com)
The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) recently encouraged parents to demand their children be removed from classes taught by teachers who voice support for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.
IFI suggests that liberal teachers are vocal about their politics and, because of this, are easily identifiable. According to the group, “Students usually know who the liberal, activist teachers are. Liberal teachers develop reputations, often as the ‘cool’ teachers.” Everyone would like to consider themselves a “cool” teacher, but are you “cool” in the way the Illinois Family Institute suggests? Are you vocal in your tolerance of the LGBT community and your support of LGBT students? Take the cool teacher quiz to find out if IFI would consider you cool.
Ken Jennings couldn’t.
The man who made history in 2004 by winning 74 consecutive rounds of Jeopardy wasn’t able to figure out the short story presented to eighth graders across New York during a reading exam this past April. The story, which has gone down in infamy (it even has its own Facebook page), involves a talking pineapple that challenges a hare to a race and is subsequently eaten by all the animals in the forest. The moral of the story? Pineapples don’t have sleeves. If you’re confused, you’re not alone.
