InvolverA group calling itself the “Typo Eradication Advancement League” has set out on a year-long journey across America to combat irritating grammatical errors. The aim of Jeff Spokane and friends is to “make the US a safer place for spelling”. “We carry a supply of erasers, chalk, and white-out fluid and correct errors wherever we see them”, says Spokane. “Our efforts are not always appreciated. We were once thrown out of a bar for trying to correct a sign that said “cake’s.”
From ‘The Week’
mj
The Hot Topic for VoiceBox 17 will be ‘linking with the schools’ extended community’. I am looking for case studies of schools that are connected to Youth Councils, so if you know of any, please flag them up in Netsuite by adding a new note:
In the General tab, click on User Notes and add a New Note with type: ‘SC link to local community’, putting any other comments in the memo.
Thanks
Mark
From Wikipedia:
This was my understanding, but a recent press release from DCSF referring to Secondary Moderns says
(in England only)
Are they both right?
mj
It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
from Daily Grist 24 June 08: U.S. Supreme Court clears way for asbestos-company trial
MJ
I wrote a request on a green news forum for examples of ways that people try to be green yet end up with unintended consequences: Following reply
“How about the truly horrible and totally counterproductive national “phones4schools” project – which encourages recycling in kids – supposedly – by rewarding them with revolting, tacky, totally non-sustainable rubbish toys for each mobile phone they bring in to school. The more mobile phones you bring in, the more toys your child gets…
I have several major problems with this project:”(continued)
I’ve had my reservations about this project too, but haven’t stopped to think it through until now. Is this too controversial to debate through VoiceBox/ website? what do people think. Mark
By Richard Hillesley, writes (12 Jun 2008 at 03:13):
Inertia, fear of the unknown and agreements with vendors have lead to slow adoption of open source and free software in UK schools.
Back in 2005, Becta – the body that advises the UK government on IT policy in education – issued a report which concluded that free and open source software could reduce the cost of deploying, supporting and maintaining computer systems in primary schools by between 20 and 50 per cent.
Becta’s report was the conclusion of a study of 48 schools over a period of three years, which compared 33 schools running traditional proprietary systems, against 15 that were running open source solutions. Link here
Mark