Two medical educators injected a fake teacher into an evaluate-your-teachers survey, in a medical school. Ivan Oransky, writing in MedPage Today, describes the study and the incident that motivated those two medical educators: Dear medical school faculty members, here’s a question that may come to mind as the new academic year gets underway: What if […]
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HEALTH LESSON: Smoking marijuana
[Yet another tool for teachers.] Some students believe that health lessons are necessarily dull. But try this one. The New York Times reports: Young adults who started using the drug regularly in their early teens performed significantly worse on cognitive tests assessing brain function than did subjects who were at least 16 when they started […]
The Bank-Robbing Teachers Club
Gail Rasmussen in the latest nominee for the Bank-Robbing Teachers Club: Gail Rasmussen: “Double life alleged: teacher, bank robber” (Boston Globe, Jan 1, 2010) A few of the many past nominees: Mark Gurniak: “High school math teacher pleads guilty to bank robbery” (WSYR, August 10, 2009) Al Hurwitz: “Zombie Bandit linked to Santa Rosa bank […]