Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:57:05 -0500
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Subject: TOURBUS -- 4 JUNE 1998 -- PYRAMAD/THURSTON HIGH/ED STUFF
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TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): PYRAMAD (PART 2) / THURSTON HIGH /
EDUCATION STUFF
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
PYRAMAD FOR THE MAC
http://www.magicastle.com/pyramad/pyramad_mac.html
-- see body for 2nd link --
PYRAMAD FOR THE PC
http://www.magicastle.com/pyramad/pyramad_win.html
http://web1.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/PM-Setup.html
THURSTON HIGH MEMORIAL WALL
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/5847/
HANUSHEK'S PAPER ON SCHOOL RESOURCES
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/398ehan.pdf
REPORTS FROM THE FRBNY'S EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/
ADOBE ACROBAT
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
DAN SELIGMAN'S ARTICLES FOR FORBES
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/by/dseligma.htm
Howdy, y'all, and greetings from sunny Alabama! Your fearless bus
driver is busy studying for exams (I have one tomorrow and another one
on Monday), so today's journey of our little bus of Internet happiness
will be, for lack of a better word, "swift." I have saved all of the
email I received over the past week, though, and will respond to
those emails as soon as my exams are over. :)
Last week I told you about Pyramad, an absolutely charming Egyptian
tile game for your computer. Unfortunately, because so many of our
fellow TOURBUS riders tried to download Pyramad at the same time, we
sort of crashed the Pyramad download server. Whoops! :)
I am happy to announce that, as of a few seconds ago, the download
server seems to be working perfectly, and you should now be able to
download Pyramad without any problems. You can find Pyramad for the
Mac at
http://www.magicastle.com/pyramad/pyramad_mac.html
and Pyramad for the PC at
http://www.magicastle.com/pyramad/pyramad_win.html
Just to be on the safe side, though, I found a couple of other places
on the Net where you can find Pyramad. If you have a Mac and can't
download Pyramad from MagiCastle's site, check out gamecenter.com's
Pyramad for Mac download page at
http://www.gamecenter.com/Downloads/Mac/Result/Download/0,43,0-21860,00.html
If you have a PC and can't download Pyramad, check out GamesDomain's
Pyramad for PC download page at
http://web1.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/PM-Setup.html
Sorry for the confusion. Trust me when I say that Pyramad really is
worth the wait. :)
With that taken care of, let's start today's tour. I want to give a
special thank you to the folks at Oddparts.com (see today's bus logo)
for sponsoring today's post. Make sure you stop by and thank them for
keeping our bus on the road another week.
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THURSTON HIGH SCHOOL
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By now, everyone has heard the story. On the morning of Thursday, May
21st, a student allegedly shot 24 other students, killing two, in a
Springfield, Oregon high school cafeteria. For the past couple of
weeks, the chain link fence surrounding the school (Thurston High
School) has served as an impromptu memorial wall where people could
leave flowers, teddy bears, written prayers, and other momentos.
Yesterday morning, Thurston's graduating class dismantled the wall to
give the class closure to this event before Saturday's graduation.
The memorial wall is not gone forever, though. A few days ago, three
Thurston High alumni photographed the entire memorial wall. Their
photographs can be found on the Web at
The address is http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/5847/
To see the images from the wall, scroll down this page and click on
the words "Virtual Tour." The tour begins at the far right-hand
corner of the wall, so you'll have to click on the *LEFT* arrow on
your screen to load the next picture. Also notice that several images
on the wall are "clickable," meaning you can click on those items to
get a closer view. For example, on the first image in the virtual
tour, you can get a closer look at the messages on the white poster by
clicking on that poster.
I want to thank the people who created this page for sharing these
images with us and the rest of the world, and I especially want to
thank Ramona Peterson, a 1977 Thurston High graduate, for telling me
about this Web site.
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THE FEDERAL RESERVE'S CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION
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>From time to time we have talked about sites and issues that are of
interest to classroom teachers and librarians. Well, back in November
of last year, the Federal Reserve Board of New York conducted a
conference titled "Excellence in Education: Views on Improving
American Education." The proceedings of this conference appeared in
the most recent FRBNY's "Economic Policy Review" (March 1998, Volume
4, Number 1).
The most interesting paper from this conference (in my humble opinion)
was written by Eric A. Hanushek, a professor of economics and public
policy and director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political
Economy at the University of Rochester. His paper, titled
"Conclusions and Controversies about the Effectiveness of School
Resources," makes the point that
... there is little reason to be confident that simply adding
more resources to schools as currently constituted will yield
performance gains among students. Studies of class size and
pupil-teacher ratios, of teacher education, and of teacher
experience give little if any support to policies of expanding
these resources. [p. 19]
A complete PDF (Adobe Acrobat) version of Hanushek's paper can be
found at
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/398ehan.pdf
Other papers from the conference can be found at
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/
You'll need to click on the session links (Session 1, Session 2, etc.)
to see the papers presented in those sessions. Unfortunately, all of
the conference's papers are only available in PDF format, so you will
need Adobe's Acrobat reader to be able to view them. Adobe Acrobat is
available free of charge for Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1 and
3.11 for Workgroups, Mac and PowerMac (System 7 or later), UNIX, OS/2,
and DOS at
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
Ignore the stuff on the left-hand side of this page that says you can
get Acrobat Reader and PDF Writer for US$29.95. All that means is it
costs US$29.95 for the software you'll need to _CREATE_ PDF files.
The Adobe Acrobat reader (the software you need to _READ_ PDF files
such as the papers from the NY Fed's education conference) is, and has
always been, free.
By the way, Dan Seligman also mentions Hanushek's paper in a column
titled "Ignoring the Facts" that appears in the most recent issue of
Forbes (June 15, 1998, p. 104-107). That article hasn't been posted
to the Net yet, but my guess is you should be able to find it in HTML
format in a few days at
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/by/dseligma.htm
That's it for this week! Have a safe and happy weekend, and I'll see
you again next week! :)
TODAY'S TOURBUS STOP(S): PYRAMAD (PART 2) / THURSTON HIGH /
EDUCATION STUFF
TODAY'S TOURBUS ADDRESS(ES):
PYRAMAD FOR THE MAC
http://www.magicastle.com/pyramad/pyramad_mac.html
-- see body for 2nd link --
PYRAMAD FOR THE PC
http://www.magicastle.com/pyramad/pyramad_win.html
http://web1.gamesdomain.com/demos/demo/PM-Setup.html
THURSTON HIGH MEMORIAL WALL
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/5847/
HANUSHEK'S PAPER ON SCHOOL RESOURCES
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/398ehan.pdf
REPORTS FROM THE FRBNY'S EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE
http://www.ny.frb.org/rmaghome/econ_pol/
ADOBE ACROBAT
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
DAN SELIGMAN'S ARTICLES FOR FORBES
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/by/dseligma.htm
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TODAY'S SOUTHERN WORD OF THE DAY
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SELLIT (noun). A mix of leafy vegetables.
Usage: "Gimme a mess of that there poke sellit."
[Special thanks goes to Cleve Callison for today's wurd]
You can find all of the old Southern Words of the day at
http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
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