09 May 2012    A First Glimpse at the Constantinople Curriculum

Anything that any one of the three students is shown doing below could also be done by the other two, and at a comparable level of mastery, from which arises the hypothesis that nine months of study under the Constantinople Curriculum (CONCUR) brings a student to approximately the same high level of achievement whether the student has been working while nominally in Grade 6 (Kirsten), or Grade 5 (Alexa), or even Grade 2 (Marko). — Lubomyr Prytulak

M. J. McDermott: An Inconvenient Truth

I have a question for you.  Do you think that students in Washington State should learn multiplication and division with mastery by the end of the fifth grade? — M. J. McDermott

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Now, Bullock, you don't mean to tell me that you can't find room for just one more muffin? — Katherine Chipping

Alternative Education INDEX

At one point, having seized Khmelnytsky's little son, Czaplinski ordered his servants to flog him at the Chyhyryn market, and they applied themselves so zealously that after the beating he was brought home barely alive, and died shortly afterwards. — Mykhailo Hrushevsky

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The study of scientific method serves to reveal not only which instances of research conform to scientific method and which don't, but serves to reveal also which everyday utterances conform to scientific method and which don't.  Scientific method is not merely a tool applicable to the laboratory, it is a tool applicable to all of life. — Lubomyr Prytulak

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"Four times during the past two months, Central Europe has suffered environmental disasters on the scale of the Chernobyl accident.  All originated in Romania." — NGO Coalition to Save Our Rivers

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The little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! — Arthur Miller, The Crucible

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WHO VOTES FOR PUTIN — VOTES FOR WAR! — Moscow protestor