Grade Machine is dead, long live Grade Machine

The grading program I have been using for over ten years, Grade Machine, has been purchased by an educational conglomerate (Pearson), who will discontinue support for it effective August 31, 2008. They have posted a “License editor” that allows users to generate the registration key required to re-install the program (you need the serial number from your purchase). The nice...

Book review: How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom

I haven’t read How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom yet, but it is available to read online, and a quick skim of it enticed me to come back soon for more. From the web site: How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical...