In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone?... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered?... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics.

You nailed it. The important thing isn't how silly you might look, but whether or not the student gets the concepts.

One of my students in my intro class where I've used this book (briefly) is failing her other classes and has a learning disability, but is getting an 'A' in my class and is excited about working on extra credit (some data modeling problem solving) that she doesn't even need.

Today, in class, I talked about how the intro skills they have learned in Access scale up, and passed around Oracle books on SQL, PL/SQL, OAS Reports, and was pleasantly surprised when the students actually spent time looking through the books. (The books were Oracle only because that is my background and graduate focus.)

No, see the sample below. I own the book and use a couple of pages in my intro to database class as a review.

http://www.tinker.tv/download/databases_ch2.pdf

This is for NYS:

How Do I Fire an Incompetent Teacher? (Flowchart)