There are more than 39 million Hispanics live in the United States making it the fifth largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world. It is estimated that within five years, only Mexico will have more Spanish-speakers than the U.S. Schools are offering bilingual courses and fully integrated bilingual curriculum. In some […]
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Book Review: Let There Be Light – The Story of Light From Atoms to Galaxies (2nd Edition)
This second edition of “Let there be Light: the Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies” is, like the first edition, a delightful book. Light, or more generally electromagnetic radiation, is the vehicle that the authors use to traverse the broad subject of physics, and they do so in a […]
Introduction to Computer Programming and Programming Languages
Since computer science was recognized as a distinct academic field in 1960s, it has made great strides especially in making things a lot easier for humans. One of the issues it has solved is the way problems that need to be addressed have been translated into a code or format […]
The Origin of the 11D World Membrane As a Pascal Conic Section of a 6D-String in 5D Projective Space
The biography of David Hilbert discusses a debate concerning whether it was an intellectual faux pas to advocate advancing the 2000 year old Theorem of Pappus to the status of an Axiom. This issue is notable from a number of perspectives, one being his 1920 proposal establishing the Hilbert Program […]
The English Language Dominates the World
No matter where you go in the world, you have a very good chance of finding someone who speaks English. English is quickly becoming the global language, and it dominates the world in many ways. There are many reasons for this fact, one of which is the fact that Great […]
The Sacred Geometries of Lust, Power and Platonic Love
In the light of nanotechnology the philosopher Anaxagoras, during the 5th Century BC, can now be considered to have founded Western atomistic science with his theory of creation. The Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy, by consciously fusing ethics into his theory of creation, established (a spiritual) science in the 3rd […]
Algebra Solving – The "See Saw" Way
Many times students make careless mistake in solving algebra questions during manipulation of the mathematical terms. This is so because of the understanding of the mathematics operations and the actual meaning of the “equal” symbol that relates two mathematics expressions. Moving mathematics variables or terms from left side to right […]
The Mathematics of Manifestation
Whatever you hold in your thoughts and mix with emotion will manifest itself into your life, guaranteed. Hold a thought in your mind and feel the emotion in your heart and it is on its way. Then why do so many people have trouble attracting what they want into their […]
How a Student Podcast is Calling Out Inequities in Schools
What if you gathered a group of high school students, gave them fancy microphones and some training, and challenged them to make an investigative podcast about the issues they cared about the most? That’s the premise of a nonprofit called The Bell, started in New York City by 2017 by […]
Much ado about NAEP | @mcleod
‹ Previous Congratulations, Silver Lining for Learning! Next › Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Surprise! Four big thoughts on all of this… 1. Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]