Month: September 2012

• 09/18/2012

  Who doesn’t want to relive the 2000 election? (Stats problem)

  We’ll take a slight detour from my college readiness manifesto (that hasn’t even really started yet) to bring you the following election-related problem. Then again, this problem was lifted directly from a graduate level Statistics class, so this might give some insight into what college readiness could potentially look like. Hadn’t thought of that. Enjoy!…

• 09/10/2012

  Preparing Kids for College (A Prologue): Kids should go to college.

  If you’ll permit me this space, I need to work out some things. I’ve been struggling a bit with the whole college readiness question, in particular the simple question: what’s the best way to prepare kids for college level work? But before I dig into that in later parts, I need to publicly own my world…