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High school physics education issues as seen by some American teachers: From content standards to critical thinking

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The day I burned my school down

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The most poignant moment of whole the affair was when the alarm sounded and the lights flashed, and everyone in my classroom laughed because...

AAPT PhysicsBowl answers are up!

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Find the very robust PDF answer key here . It will make much more sense if you participated in the 2008 PhysicsBowl competition exam and hav...
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And the winner is...

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The San Juan Unified School District Physics Adoption Committee met for the last time and rendered its decisions on the textbooks to be used...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

NCNAAPT Brentwood pix (and another videoclip)

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Pictures from the NCNAAPT Spring Meeting at Brentwood's Heritage High School can be found here . For meeting details, see the program . ...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

NCNAAPT Spring Meeting afterlinks

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The NCNAAPT Spring Meeting at Brentwood's new Heritage High (Go Patriots!) had more good talks than throngs of attendees. The new sch...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

Conceptual Physics labs at Arbor Scientific

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Paul Hewitt has posted a comprehensive set of Conceptual Physics labs at Arbor Scientific . The labs are aligned with the upcoming Conceptua...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

My conflict of interest disenfranchises my students

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For the first time in my 22 years of teaching physics in the San Juan Unified School District, I am to have no voice in the decision of whic...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Fooling our elders...

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really isn't that hard to do. Nevertheless, the kids never seem to tire of it. An email was forwarded to the staff of my school last we...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Digital killed the Polaroid star

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It's true: I'm posting this because I thought of a clever title. Clever to people who remember the first video ever broadcast on MTV...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

Giving credit where it's not due

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I'm originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was a nice place to grow up... in many ways. But it was--and still is--a very Christian c...
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