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A version of this review appeared in the January-February 2008 issue of the VaHomeschooler's newsletter. I thought it was worth keeping, especially in light of the recent news on Shanghai schoolchildren.
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Most of us, I suspect, are less than confident when it comes to math and wonder if we've got what it takes to teach it. But I imagine Liping Ma was a little anxious, too, when, as an eighth-grader from Shanghai, she was sent to be "reeducated" by illiterate...

I'm finally reaching a conclusion on the great Kindle experiment. It's the perfect medium for ephemera. It's ideal for travel. It works well for books that you never want to revisit. But it's a poor substitute for a bookshelf full of books.
Maybe this partially explains why I'm not terribly upset by the failure of the great Kobo experiment. Hoping to spread the eBook reader wealth around a bit, my sister and I bought the Borders version, the Kobo, for our father for a Father's Day gift...

Last week I had a dream where I was back in the newsroom of The Washington Times. The recent severe layoffs had already happened, and the future of the paper looked grim (which is true enough). But I had the answer! All I needed to do was convince the...