Some quick blasts as it's mid-week, I'm busy, and probably wont do much blogging until the weekend.
Last night Bush said: "[W]e need to encourage children to take more math and science and to make sure those courses are rigorous enough to compete with other nations." Rigorous ... as in "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. Youâre asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes"? Chris comments here.
Over at Uncommon Descent, Dave Springer loses it and probably gets bitch-slapped by Dembski. Details here and over at the Thumb.
You too can now own your very own copy of the Wedge document. PZ has more.
OK, back to work.
More like this
In Tuesday's post I started discussing this essay (PDF format), by mathematician Doron Zeilberger.
The US Chamber of Commerce has a education website, which provides "grades" for states based on various measures of their educational performance.
OK, it's been about 20 years since I was last in vet school and I have fogotten most of the stuff I learned there. But I remember a few things.
Jerry Falwell's Liberty University is starting a law school. I'm sure it'll be every bit as rigorous as Pat Robertson's law school. How rigorous is that?