MusicEmissions (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Matthew Curran’s debut album 'Simplify' captures the essence of rock sound very well - flavours of Hendrix and the Allman Brothers mix with the more modern influences of Collective Soul, the Black Crows, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains. There are some unexpected detours into psychedelia-like noises but these always wind up back in the same place - rock sound. Straight up, no chaser....
Black Political Thought (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... morning. Source: Philly Burbs What is equally unconscionable is the fact that the math teacher, Matthew Curran deliberately chose to use this picture. A school district spokeswoman said that Curran frequently uses photos and other illustrations on his work sheets to engage the students and said he found the image by doing a Google Images search for the phrase "multiply...
Opinion of a Minion (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... the paper fills in the details. School district spokeswoman Karen Smith said the math teacher, Matthew Curran, frequently uses photos and other illustrations on his work sheets to engage the students. Curran reported, through Smith, that he found the image by doing a Google Images search for the phrase “multiply and divide.” “I chose it because it said ‘no way,’ which is a...
The Daily What (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Intertubes Are Leaking of the Day: Lenape Middle School math teacher Matthew Curran handed out the day’s homework assignment on a sheet of paper that contained a macro plucked directly from the inner recesses of the darkest of 4chan corners. Surprisingly, some parents had a problem with that. From The Intelligencer : The mother learned that her son, the only black student in...
the field negro (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
It seems that a lot of bloggers in my area are all over the following story so I will bite. Apparently a young Bucks County teacher, Matthew Curran, used a poor choice of visual aids to teach an 8th grade class about math. Do you see that picture up there? That's what he used for his class on math to get them to focus on "solving equations." ( I am not sure what the hell that...
