A reading blog where I will try to my utmost to avoid the mention of books.

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Funny (not haha funny) things about French people!


They discuss elevators--and other trivial things--seriously, and at length.

They all have GPS in their cars, but many don't have internet at home.

They get MAD if you confuse the word for "feet" with the word for "paws".

They wear shorts with tights--but we'll probably be doing this in the US by next year, so I don't know if I should comment...

All the homeless people have dogs.

They are always on strike.

Please applaud my feeble guilt-post.

HAPPY ST NICK'S!!!


Saturday, November 17, 2007

NAEP

This is what the NAEP has to say for itself:

"The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas." (source)

...which is exactly the problem. I'll try to go into this more later, probably on my other blog, but for the moment, I just wanted to put this out there. I am perturbed.