Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media is promoting its “Tools for Reporting on Teaching: What to Look for in Classrooms,” a Web site aimed at helping journalists know what to look for in teaching. It’s a dang clever idea, because the illustrations set the agenda for reporters. Those who buy the vision of teaching put forth on the site will likely look askance at some examples they see in classrooms and provide favorable views of classrooms that are similar to those portrayed on the site.
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Daily Archive for November 30th, 2007
Hmmmm… someone’s written a little script that reads a Web page and computes a readability level for it. It’s selling itself by publishing a link to a company that sells loans (“cash advances”) in the code that displays the shield shown here. (I excised that code, but one can probably find it elsewhere when one sees a similar shield.) Anyway, I wondered what algorithm was employed in determining the readability level. Had I more time, I’d scour the Web in search of an explanation. Had I even more time, I’d construct a group of Web pages that were sensitive to different readability formuli and run the test against each of them….sigh.
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