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My office is kind of a mix of both. A group of semi-open cubes for each team with a lot of common spaces where people go when they feel cooped up. I like it. I get a private space where I can have plants but I can also go grab a seat on a couch or near the break room TV if I am feeling restless.

The Learning Style theory is junk with the flimsiest evidence, but tell that to any teaching institute in this arena so obsessed with constructivist ideals. The reason I did not continue on to teach physics was partially due to an insistence that it was teachers who needed to expend more effort to make classes "fit" a student's preferences so that their learning would be a gradual climb. You learn material by flailing, not by floating.

Part of me thinks it was my own disgust in the model that made the New Yorker article feel it was a negative take on the clickbait industry. That was an ironic feeling, given the context. The portions of the story where it discusses his family life, and the glorification of this person's intelligence... they felt borderline satirical but probably only because I want it to be pointed satire. The 22 year-old former Syracuse student, for instance, quoting Uncle Ben rather than a more auspicious figure (Jesus, Roosevelt) with the same basic quote... It just felt like the Twilight Zone.

I hope that this parasitic method of generating ad revenue with meaningless content languishes rather than flourishes.

The medicine isn't supposed to improve your recovery time, it's supposed to lessen the ill effects of having the cold. Your comment doesn't make sense in that context at all.

"It takes about 1 week to get over a cold if you don't take medicine. It still takes 1 week to get over a cold with medicine, but you'll feel much less hindered by the effects of the cold itself."

I would say that it requires algebraic thoughts. You are assigning a placeholder for "x" as "that number that would fit in the middle here". To me, that seems algebraic. Especially at this very, very basic level of algebra we are discussing.

I love pass so much. Use it every single day on Cygwin. I remember getting it to work in Cygwin. Fun stuff.

Or folders. Didn't Gmail get rid of folders?

Any idea why they don't allow this? There are a lot of cool possibilities that could arise from that info.

I was also a very poor math student in HS that went on to get a physics degree. I can say that it was the method of instruction as well as my own lack of motivation. Classes were boring and easy to pass even if you did not know the material. In my state you needed a 2.0 GPA to get into a state school. This is generally doable for even the worst students.

The lack of real consequences for not studying and doing homework played a huge role in my childhood academic experiences. I am often baffled when I hear reports of students who are over stressed by the requirements of high school academics. The standards seem now to be even lower than when I was in school yet students constantly complain that they can't keep up. It's mind boggling.

Standardized testing isn't a meant to teach skills. It is meant to assess skills. No one is proposing that more standardized testing will teach students how to do mathematics.

>What's holding back these places from getting ahead?

There is no motivation for someone to teach in inner cities beyond a sense of civic duty. I live in a city with terrible (unaccredited) schools. Students in those schools are often openly hostile to teachers and faculty. Administration is often on the verge of a breakdown due to the pressure to "turn things around." Why would anyone want to teach there? I know I didn't want to.

If you think it's a travesty that talented and bright teachers want to avoid inner cities then you should do it yourself. That's what I say to anyone who brings this up. Often I will be told, "But that's where you're needed!"

"So are you," is my response.

Common Core is much more legible than the prior standards. That being said, it is a framework and not a solution that should be applied blindly at any opportunity.

I taught high school physics for a semester and the math abilities of these students (many considered top students) were abysmal. Somehow several of these students had received As and Bs in Algebra 2 but were unable to transform f = ma into a = f/m. They also had a very flawed understanding of how to solve quadratics.

I later realized that the issue is that mathematics is often taught as procedural. Students are taught a process (a set of steps to follow) that will take you from A to B. This works very well when you can remember all of the steps but if you forget one step you will always get the wrong answer. Almost none of these students could reason abstractly about the nature of the equations they were looking at. They could only refer to prior experiences following a sort of algebra recipe.

By what measure do you judge a home's value beyond looking at it and comparing it to the neighborhood? Let's compare our anecdotes: In mine the housing price is off by 100% and the home's basic properties are incorrect. In yours the value varies by 25% in some measurements. I would say the appraisals are much more accurate. And when you consider that the appraised value determines the loan amount (and thus whether the home is even sold), I would consider it a much more important metric.

ETA: And if your mention of the bubble is to suggest that my home was appraised at a higher value and is now lower to reflect the true value, I purchased my house a year ago when prices of homes were at some of their lowest points.

I didn't say 100% accurate, but yes there is reason to believe that:

http://www.trulia.com/corp/files/2011/05/trulia_direct_refer... http://info.trulia.com/file.php/5288/Trulia-Estimates-Region...

Trulia, where my 3BD/2BA home is listed as a 2BD/1BA valued at less than 1/2 it's appraised value.

It's hard to trust a study that uses a data like this. Even though my situation is anecodotal, sites like Trulia and Zillow have been criticized for their data accuracy in the past.

I also noticed this. I immediately thought ot myself, "How is this any different than my current set up with Cygwin and apt-cyg?"

Surprise: It's not!