Associated Press carried Richard Ostling's alert this week. The latest anti-evolution buzz-word is Intelligent Design. It's not a new concept.

Intelligent Design is generally credited to Phillip E. Johnson, a retired American law professor at Boalt School of Law, UC Berkeley and author. He is an elder of the Presbyterian Church. Read more

In 1970, Joseph Novak, then at Cornell, developed software he called Concept Mapping. Now he's with a Florida research institute, making free software available that may help some kids learn. The Florida Institute for Human/Machine Cognition is allowing its CMap software to be downloaded for free. Read more

You may not hear it on the news, but some things are working in education. Let me tell you about them, and see what you think.

In August many California high school teachers met for a day in Santa Barbara to learn how to connect community service with classroom goals. It's a challenge. Read more

Resources Free from your Library

All you need is your library card number. Go to the San Francisco Public Library site and choose Articles and Databases from the main page. Read more