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Re: Top4o Songs That I Hate So Much I Literally Have to Turn Off the Radio When They Come On

Ranjani — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:06:37 -0000

Exactly what I was thinking. Nickelback makes the same sort of song over and over again. Pink is AMAZING. Soulja Boy is this generation's Who Let The Dogs Out or something, I don't know.

Good thing there's good music to balance out the terrible.

Re: About

vikas sharma — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:51:18 -0000

Hello, Friend !!!How r u

Re: The Greatest Gift

Gretchen Rubin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:06:43 -0000

Hi Mimzy- I saw the nice mention of my blog, The Happiness Project under "stuff you read". I so much appreciate those you shining a spotlight on my blog! Thanks and best wishes, Gretchen Rubin

Re: Silicon Wafer

simon leahy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:34:28 -0000

Hello Mimzy!

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Re: How Not To Think

April — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:01:39 -0000

I concur completely. Fortunately, my AP Lit class is completely different... we don't have a textbook, and basically all we've been doing is discussing books/poetry by offering our interpretations. Our teacher never tells us we're "wrong."

Of course, whether this prepares us well for the test is debatable. I hope your teacher too can strike a balance between test prep and "life prep." The stakes are too high to ignore the latter.

Re: Bad Stats

Lelia Katherine Thomas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:44:38 -0000

Nice writeup, and I think you're right about this. Time magazine tends to be like all the other news writing agencies out there, though--given to sensationalism.

One thing that should be pointed out is that as we increase the number of days per year that students attend school, the less likely they're going to have time or want to play outside of school. School can take up a lot of time. So either we need to stop making kids go to school so many days out of the year or the burden will have to be shifted more to educational centers to provide school-hour physical education. I personal thing the former is better, but everyone is convinced that grades go up the more kids are at school (not true), so that won't be happening.

Another thing that should be paid attention to is not a possible correlation between physical education and grades, but a possible correlation between "breaks" and grades. I firmly believe that if you place students in drab classes all the time, they're going to be less interested in learning after a certain amount of time. The break afforded to these students, through the physical education, is possibly the reason the grades changed. The same thing might have occurred with the addition of an arts or music class.

Sounds like this was a truly bad study, as well as a bad article on it. As you pointed out, information about their sampling is very important, despite its not being given. I'd like to know what the change in grades actually was. If it was a few points, that could easily just be coincidence (i.e., students were calmer about taking a test the second time around). If it was 10 or more points, then that's significant. Otherwise, it's all up in the air, isn't it?

Nice catch.