Alice’s adventures with the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and so on have often been assumed to be based purely on wild imagination. Just fantastical tales for children — and, as such, ideal material for the fanciful movie director Tim Burton, whose “Alice in Wonderland” opened on Friday.

Yet Dodgson most likely had real models for the strange happenings in Wonderland, too. He was a tutor in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and Alice’s search for a beautiful garden can be neatly interpreted as a mishmash of satire directed at the advances taking place in Dodgson’s field

Op-Ed Contributor - Algebra in Wonderland - NYTimes.com.

in recent years researchers have discovered something that may seem obvious, but for many reasons was overlooked or denied. What really makes a difference, what matters more than the class size or the textbook, the teaching method or the technology, or even the curriculum, is the quality of the teacher. Much of the ability to teach is innate—an ability to inspire young minds as well as control unruly classrooms that some people instinctively possess (and some people definitely do not).

Why We Must Fire Bad Teachers - Newsweek.com.

What’s next? College admissions offices. Though a 2008 Kaplan survey showed only 10% of colleges copped to checking out the networking sites of applicants, 38% of those said such searches turned up negative info.

Defacebook - John J. Miller - Phi Beta Cons on National Review Online.

IONIA -- To the little boy's mother, it was just a 6-year-old boy playing around.

But when Mason Jammer, a kindergarten student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, curled his fist into the shape of a gun Wednesday and pointed it at another student, school officials said it was no laughing matter.

They suspended Mason until Friday, saying the behavior made other students uncomfortable, said Erin Jammer, Mason's mother.

Ionia kindergartner suspended for making gun with hand | - MLive.com.

Years ago someone told me that he never learned algebra and has never had a need for it. But I’ve learned algebra and use it constantly. It’s a lucky thing I was the one who learned algebra since I ended up needing it. But of course it’s not lucky. I would not have had any use for it either if I’d not learned it.

Just in case versus just in time The Endeavour.

One of the main components of the industrial revolution was mass producing identical products.  A revolution in this process is being brought on by the use of digital design and 3–D printing. Now unique items,such as artificial limbs , can be produced quickly, cheap and efficiently limited only by the imagination of the designer.

This digital design and 3–D printing technology is currently being utilized in Brandywine’s Project Lead The Way pre-engineering program. 

3D printing changing prosthetics forever

The legendary Art Linkletter from 1945 to 1970 hosted a TV and radio segment called "Kids Say the Darndest Things." Today, Linkletter might call those segments "Kids Post the Darndest Things."

Teens are using social media such as Facebook and YouTube to post pictures and videos of themselves performing lewd, illegal and embarrassing acts.

Today's young criminals post the darndest things.

The article didn't break any new information but what was interesting was the posts from readers.

"WOW! You can't hide from big brother.....I wonder if they use these techniques for civil and credit info...." - Posting on the Internet is not hiding. What part of WORLD WIDE WEB don't you understand.

I think a lot of this results from the fact that kids don't understand the realities of how Law Enforcement works. These kids are taught in government school that LE are their friends and not to be feared. So of course they don't hide their misdeeds as they should. And then they get busted and given a dose of the real world and what our current police state is all about. I bet these kids have a whole new understanding of our criminal justice system now. – Yeah it is about catching people doing criminal acts

Don't cops have better things to do than troll Facebook and MySpace looking for pictures of underage kids drinking beer? This isn't really what I pay taxes for. Comment By Zig Zag – Ok with a pseudonym like Zig Zag you are forgiven. Just put the bong down and step away from the keyboard.

So far the discussion hasn’t reached the limit of Goodwin’s Law “: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.“

Each of us has an idea of what is and isn't dangerous, but when pressed for specifics, it can be very difficult to make a clear definition. In this way, it's a little like great art; "I don't know much about it, but I know what I like." Having spent the better part of two years talking with parents, teachers, and kids about danger, I can say with some certainty that no two people can agree on what is dangerous. The parent who won't let his children climb trees may turn around and park the kids in front of the television for two hours a night, and the home-schooling mother who sends her kids into the woods for the day with a sack-lunch and a rifle won't let them walk through the mall alone. Our perception of danger is as highly personal as our phobias—and often about as rational.

DIY and Danger - Education - Lifehacker.

Confusion over the names of two similar-sounding African countries may have helped boosted oil prices to near $80 a barrel this week as traders rushed to buy oil after reports of a military coup. More

A Lower Merion family has set off a furor among students, parents, and civil liberties groups by alleging that Harriton High School officials used a webcam on a school-issued laptop to spy on their 15-year-old son at home.

Student claims school spied on him via computer webcam | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/19/2010.