This year’s APS Conference in Chicago was the best one I’ve attended. I’m told that the APS has only 17 full-time staffers, compared to hundreds for APA, but the conference moved along very smoothly. Before our symposium, no less that three different people came in to make sure we had Read more…
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has just published a new report entitled “Where the Girls Are” that concludes that schools are not handicapping boys in order to address perceived gaps in education for girls. They conclude: “Educational achievement is not a zero-sum game, in which a gain for Read more…
Over the 30 years plus that I’ve been teaching, I’ve seen a reflection of what’s happening in the elementary and secondary classrooms in California. There have been ups and downs. Among the “downs” were the cohorts of students who had no clue whatsoever about the differences between “there,” “their,” and Read more…
We all know that a combination of diet and exercise is important to good health and psychological well-being. If we only diet, we don’t get the cardiovascular and psychological benefits of exercise, and we run the risk of lowering our metabolic rate, making weight loss even harder. If we only Read more…
Just got a nice email from Blogged.com telling me that their editors had reviewed my blog and given it an 8.2 “great” rating in their Health category. I feel a little bit like a student again, as my site was “graded” using the following criteria: Frequency of updates (oops…that’s tough Read more…