Apprenticeships for teachers: Recently, noticing the very large proportion of US teachers who quit the profession early -- one common figure is 44% in the first 5 years -- I have begun to think that … (View Post)

Thanks to Cyclefree for this most interesting -- and important -- post. And I think she will find this November 1st, 2022 article from my home state of Washington of interest: "SEATTLE - Despite… (View Post)

Occasionally, you read of intelligent responses to disruptive demonstrations. Decades ago, for example, there was a civil rights demonstration in, as I recall, downtown Baltimore. The demonstrators s… (View Post)

Today's Andy Capp comic strip celebrates the coronation: https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2023/05/06 (It's not up to Viewcode's level.) (View Post)

To prepare for all this fuss, I re-read Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "Refugee", and thought again, as I have before, that your new monarch might have benefited from a similar experi… (View Post)