From New Democracy (and the affiliated MassRefusal.org) education site are some interesting MCAS commentaries. I especially like Umm yeah, so I'm the valedictorian. (Their site is a tad didactic. Here's an example: “More and more, our world is dominated by a small group of extremely wealthy individuals who control the big corporations and the government and impose their values of competition and greed on the rest of us. Capitalism, like communism, is incompatible with real democracy.”)

Electric Blue Sparks! &mdash No Batteries or Electrical Outlet Required!

Forward… Into the Past &ldquoWhat's wrong with this picture? Just about everything.&rdquo | By Alfie Kohn | Rethinking Schools Online | Volume 14, No. 1 | Fall 1999

On the high-stakes testing front:

Right Answer, Wrong Score: Test Flaws Take Toll | By DIANA B. HENRIQUES and JACQUES STEINBERG | NYTimes [requires login] | 2001/05/20

When a Test Fails the Schools, Careers and Reputations Suffer | By DIANA B. HENRIQUES and JACQUES STEINBERG | NYTimes [requires login] | 2001/05/21

Earth Observatory Newsroom: New Images - Zoom in on Los Angeles, California: “The… image shows the Hollywood sign above Los Angeles, California. It is the final frame in an animation that demonstrates the wide range of spatial resolutions viewed by current state-of-the-art sensors.” The animation link is a 4852K MPEG.

RJN's More Digits of Irrational Numbers Page by Robert J. Nemiroff. There are 26,000,000 interesting digits accessible from this page.

Lunar Outreach Services — Bringing the moon down to earth.

Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day from the US Naval Observatory.

Biodiversity Count is a middle-school science program created by the American Museum of Natural History. It gets students out of the classroom and into the field to study biodiversity at a site near their school. [...] Students participating in Biodiversity Counts will do the same work as Museum scientists:

make scientific observations

record data and collect evidence

keep field journals

identify and classify evidence

analyze data

make exhibitions of work for the general public
Resources offers students, teachers, and the general public a comprehensive selection of references and links to biodiversity Web sites. In addition, Resources contains many relevant essays and profiles about Museum scientists and their colleagues.

Does Roberta Compute? Yes! | By Katie Dean | WIRED News | 2001/05/04

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