Make Your WordPress Site Tablet-Friendly

I saw this plugin a while back, along with a number of other promising mobile theme plugins, I’ll give it a go now that it’s public, but I have to say that I still haven’t found anything that beats Brave New Code’s WPTouch.
You have to get the Pro version for full iPad support, but it’s well worth it.

Interesting. I didn’t even realize that there was a Pro version of WPtouch, much less that it provided iPad support. Still, given the choice between spending up to $200 for WPtouch Pro (I run a lot of sites with WordPress!) and spending nothing at all for OnSwipe, I think I’ll stick with OnSwipe. Furthermore, from their Web site and this YouTube video, it doesn’t really look like WPtouch Pro creates a magazine-style presentation format, which is what OnSwipe is designed to do: it’s very visually appealing.

“One lesson this student has learned, I hope, is that when you say something, you must be prepared for a response.  It’s called accountability…It’s time for this young man to realize he must take personal responsibility for his actions.  So far it seems he has not.”

Accountability is a good lesson and the lawsuit is a good start for the college to learn that lesson.  A good lesson for Cagle is to understand that not everyone, even Americans, support the right to speak and to hold contrary opinions, but he should voice his concerns in an honest manner despite threats and bullying.

Our poor HBCUs shutting down student dissent…SMH

profmurph, the article is not suggesting that students who cannot read, write or do basic math and who score in the lowest % be given a free ride into a top tier institution, but it is making the case for high performing indigent students who do not meet SAT/RCT/GRE score requirements but who show potential to succeed well in a top tier/exclusive University. Honestly there are many low income Hispanic and White youth who could benefit from such changes in rankings/incentives as well. Why should wealthy white students be the only ones “entitled” to a top notch education? There are many black youth as you put it who would ace a Harvard or Yale education just fine if it were paid for, and indeed for deserving students the education ought to be free if they cannot afford it. Now, I do know, in fact Harvard and Yale do have programs that pay for admitted students who cannot afford to pay the tuition since financial aid is not nearly enough to pay all expenses. In the 1950′s education was considered an entitlement in fact and was fully paid for by grants for mostly white students. 

“If we instead evaluated colleges based on actual outputs, might that create healthy incentives to focus on how much learning goes on in a school?”

I recollect a time when students who weren’t deemed ready for the 4th grade were required to retake the third. I  recollect a time when a professor was entrusted to assert his/her judgment and evaluate students based on his/her assessment of “actual outputs,” not an assessment based on what the student wanted to hear. What happened? I suggest the disincentives for any such “measurable metrics” in the classroom (re: the professional judgment and authority of the educator) have overcome and undermined anything that implementation of “healthy incentives” would try to reverse.

“As a way of jump-starting this process, some are asking, would it make sense for four to five leading universities to pick a discipline, such as physics, and develop a reasonable set of outcomes and ways of measuring student progress?”

Sounds good in theory. Yet stories of senior chemistry majors who don’t “know” the simplest of freshmen chemistry descriptive facts such as “chlorine is a yellowish-green gas,” “the oxidation state of silver is 1+”–are as increasingly common as they were legendary 50 years ago. I suppose we could “develop a reasonable set of outcomes” which would insist such descriptive facts of the physical world be mastered the freshman year, and that we de facto fail students who don’t take us at our word when we tell them they must learn them. But…(1) that sounds too much like “memorization” (forbid, forbid one must actually know the _facts_), and (2) that sounds like abuse of authority, and (3) the ensuing numbers of failed students who are bent on not taking the teacher at his/her word would undoubtedly lead to swift removal of the teacher.

We may simply have too many conflicting and contradictory ideas to support quality education in the US today.