Check out this video of teachers learning a dance as part of their professional development for math. I don’t know if this a good method of teaching kids or not, but it sure looks dumb. I also learned from the post that South Carolina has a 50% graduation rate. Yuk. (thanks to Amy P)

New research on dual career academic families. The authors have suggestions for universities on how to improve the quality of life for dual-career academics. And the deans immediately toss this report in a circular file as the line of desperate applicants forms outside their office.

Kaus has been writing about the growing anti-teachers’ union rhetoric by prominent Democrats, including Corey Booker.  (thanks to Allison and Amy P)

The right has been railing against universal pre-K. I’ll respond soon.