Cool Books for Tough Guys

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Project-Based Writing in Science

This 43-page excerpt includes the following from Project-Based Writing in Science: 1. Publication and series information 2. Table of contents and list of figures 3. Foreword by Dr. Michael L. Bentley 4. Chapter 1: "Project-Based Writing in Science" 5. Chapter 2: "Assessing Writing While Maintaining Sanity" The full book is available from Sense Publishers

Fist Fights, Guns, and the Art of Teaching English

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From Cave Art to Cryonics

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Scripting Screenplays: An Idea for Integrating Writing, Reading, Thinking, and Media Literacy

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The Iatrogenic Consequences of Standards-Based Education

The version of this article archived here is the author's post-print.Standards-based assessments were prescribed as the cure for the poor accountability of public schools. Billions of dollars have been spent on curricula, tests, and scoring rubrics so that federal and state agencies can rank schools in terms of student achievement. Over the past twenty years, standards-based education has become the de facto, only accepted method to address questions of quality in American public education. No other paradigm is even on the horizon. Despite its pandemic acceptance, the standards-based solution has serious iatrogenic consequences. This article examines five negative side effects: (1) Propagation of a fixed curriculum; (2) De-emphasis on individualization; (3) Subversion of the teacher; (4) Focus on measurable outcomes; and (5) Development of an expensive, expansive bureaucracy unrelated to instruction. The author argues that, while standards-based education may address the question of accountability, its corresponding iatrogenic consequences have been devastating in its bureaucratic intrusion on the sanctity of the classroom and representing an edict against individualization.Ye

Flow and hydraulics near the sill of Hood Canal, a strongly sheared, continuously stratified fjord

Author Posting. © American Meteorological Society, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of American Meteorological Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Physical Oceanography 40 (2010): 1087-1105, doi:10.1175/2010JPO4312.1.Hood Canal, a long fjord in Washington State, has strong tides but limited deep-water renewal landward of a complex constriction. Tide-resolving hydrographic and velocity observations at the constriction, with a depth-cycling towed body, varied markedly during three consecutive years, partly because of stratification variations. To determine whether hydraulic control is generally important and to interpret observations of lee waves, blocking, and other features, hydraulic criticality is estimated over full tidal cycles for channel wide internal wave modes 1, 2, and 3, at five cross-channel sections, using mode speeds from the extended Taylor–Goldstein equation. These modes were strongly supercritical during most of ebb and flood on the gentle seaward sill face and for part of flood at the base of the steep landward side. Examining local criticality along the thalweg found repeated changes between mode 1 being critical and supercritical approaching the sill crest during flood, unsurprising given local minima and maxima in the cross-sectional area, with the sill crest near a maximum. Density crossing the sill sometimes resembled an overflow with an internal hydraulic control at the sill, followed by a hydraulic jump or lee wave. Long-wave speeds, however, suggest cross waves, particularly along the shallower gentler side, where flow downstream of a large-amplitude wave was uniformly supercritical. Supercritical approaching the sill, peak ebb was critical to mode 1 and supercritical to modes 2 and 3 at the base while forming a sluggish dome of dense water over the sill. Full interpretation exceeds observations and existing theory.Washington State Sea Grant funded collection of these observations and the Office of Naval Research their publication. Pratt’s efforts were supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant OCE-0525729

The Transmogrification of Teacher Education

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