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Wiki explains it better than I could.

The speaker is elected independently, usually from the opposite party of the departing incumbent. The...

If you care, and if you can get past the paywall, the New York Times did a follow up story on what actually happened to the people arrested and their...

150K Nature Illustrations Spanning Hundreds of Years Are Now Free Online

Thanks to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, you can easily peruse rad...

Good point Pyrrho! Should be. Further, professor evaluation should be directly tied to professor salary.

That'd weed out the fucking ineffective...

So yea, the recruiter was blowing smoke up your ass.

They have been known to do that. :wink:

Witness: See that other thread for my answer to that. 8)

P. – S.

Reminded me of this I'd seen recently:

They might ask how it is that the public schools have failed the black population.

Then they'd have to admit they are doing in on purpose.

Yes I...

↑↑↑ Kitsch, especially well-meaning kitsch, is always offensive. (To Humanity, of course.)

USD law school: Hawaiian Day party is offensive. Hawaiian state rep: No it's not.

The University of South Dakota Law School pressured the...

Keeping the tradition alive, Old Boy. 8)

Groping the celestial globes?

Well people are honestly getting dumb each day with technology getting at the finger tips. Glad to know this.

Colleges dropping 'Fat Studies' courses in 2018
The College Fix

:mrgreen:

Analysis: They will do as good a job of it as they teach reading.
I'd wager two things about schoolteachers (from my experience):
– a lot of them...

“Jews may be vocal and demanding of assistance,”

:doglaugh:

Kids been sniffin' Jenchem.

More on this for anyone here that cares about our children. :)

The Windows S machines are more or less tailored to classroom use. It makes many...

Contrary to his denial, I've come to think that Abdul is actually our board philosopher. :twisted:

All I gotta say is, none of the black people...

Indeed. When making the trip back to the Dark Ages, one should take along a friend or two.

Nature is amazing. Fuck the creationists.

He is My Bitch.

He cannot escape from me.

--J.D.

I'm betting that all of it can be put pretty much aside by looking at the SAT scores. Sure, politics will play play a small part (once a huge part,...

Charter schools are like private schools funded with public money.

No true, they are just slightly less regulated than the typical public school....

↑ Dunno, Vlad, you tell me. ;) :figamagee:

You don't think I retire to a (* shudder *) moldy, stinky, cramped coffin , do you?

Nope. But you can read their mission statement there. I won't quote it because I don't want a night in the box.

--J.D.

Granted, I don't know how a PhD stacks up to a plain old Bachelors degree in the income department. But degree holders overall make more money than...

gnome for the win. :figamagee:

Saved this thread from ignominy. :)

Speaking of Texas news, has anyone brought up Robert Morrow yet?

Bite response perhaps?

No.

Wait...

--J.D.

If it were actual terrorists I doubt they would warn anyone beforehand. Kind of defeats the purpose. Any real terrorist attacks where the terrorists...

They are asymptotically approaching making the Special Olympics the paradigm for elementary education.

You know, everyone a winner.

Between shit...

Cool mom bump.

It's what happens when the inmates insist on running the asylum.

A new definition for 'thin skinned'.

Prayer cloths still cost only $10 American.

--J.D.

an old and well-established tradition in education

No fucking excuse. Indeed, evidence for the prosecution modulo some extenuating circumstance....

Jade Helm

If not renewing your contract means they have to hire someone else to take your place, that means it's a firing. If not renewing the contract is...

The State should also pay their bills:

One thing to bear in mind. The Ancient Hebrew conception of the universe (as understood by whoever wrote that part of Genesis), was not a religious...

because it accused people who deny evolution of being liars who are intentionally setting out to deceive others about the origins of the world....

They should introduce British Bulldog

Bunch of pansies. Not, of course....

I expect Hovind to do as well as he usually does: his followers will believe his bullshit.

--J.D.

I agree completely. A quibble ...

And that learning to be an end user is computer literacy .

If they would just teach that it would be 'good...

Reminds me of what I use to carry my craidheamh-ròm. . . .

--J.D.