Tag: nclb
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December 06, 2007 02:23 PM EST --
Reading First is the largest and most focused early reading initiative ever undertaken in this country. It is also the most expensive, costing the United States about a billion . . . more
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September 19, 2006 09:08 PM EDT --
Dr. Socrates P. Aristotle
Provost
Stellar University
Dear Dr. Aristotle,
Is it possible that we are training too many scientists?
In the biology department where I work, every position we have open, . . . more
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January 05, 2007 08:54 PM EST --
I was invited to speak at a local rotary club on the subject of educational reform. I presented a brief version of my "Connected Learning" whitepaper. During the Q&A a person asked a question . . . more
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June 15, 2007 10:28 AM EDT --
This is the first year that my students have had to take some very rigorous state tests. As many of you know, I teach Special Education and these tests seem so unfair to me. However, they are showing up . . . more
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August 25, 2006 11:45 AM EDT --
Dr. Socrates P. Aristotle
Provost
Stellar University
Dear Dr. Aristotle,
After 30 years of recruiting high tech scientists for corporate positions, I have sold my company and retiring. This has all been . . . more
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August 27, 2006 04:21 PM EDT --
"Teaching without learning is just talk." (Unknown)
Any discussion about educational reform must establish a working concept of knowledge and how education serves the acquisition of knowledge. . . . more
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March 12, 2007 10:44 PM EDT --
I mean really, what was Bush thinking? All he is doing is testing children to death and making them feel like garbage. The federal government has not come through with the funding they promised. Instead, . . . more
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August 23, 2006 12:10 PM EDT --
Let me make one thing pefectly clear. (Nixon) To blame the classrom teachers for the crisis in education is equivalent to blaming the combat soldier in Iraq for the mess they find themselves a part of. . . . more
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August 29, 2006 04:46 PM EDT --
Everyone who has read my writings knows that I am a proponent of using technology, more specifically, the Internet as a tool to reform education. Despite my protest my critics try to force this idea into . . . more
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September 08, 2006 05:13 PM EDT --
The shiny new auditorium is filled to capacity. The audience is conspicuously silent. On the stage a glass and chrome podium awaits the speaker. In the background a state-of-the art, rear projection, theatre . . . more
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August 23, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
Let me make one thing perfectly clear. (Nixon) To blame the classroom teachers for the crisis in education is equivalent to blaming the combat soldier in Iraq for the mess they find themselves a part of. . . . more
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August 24, 2006 03:55 PM EDT --
George Santayana said, 'Those who do not remember the past are condemmed to repeat it.
"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and . . . more
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August 18, 2007 02:43 PM EDT --
Time published an article this week by John Cloud entitled Are We Failing Our Geniuses.
In the article he follows a young woman with high intelligence from her held-back life in Texas to a pioneering . . . more
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May 23, 2008 08:19 AM EDT --
As we work out details of our move up north, the biggest debate we're having is on how to educate our son (currently 10 months old). My husband doesn't know anyone who was homeschooled and . . . more
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December 12, 2006 09:23 PM EST --
I've published several articles and have done more commenting but have recieved no comments in return. Am I doing something wrong? The articles are varied and should cath someone's interest. Am . . . more
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April 01, 2008 10:11 PM EDT --
Indianapolis and several other Red State urban centers just took the prize for being at the bottom of the public education barrel with regards to high school graduation rates. The odd thing is that . . . more
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December 11, 2006 09:44 PM EST --
While teaching in a private special education school I recieved a kid from Newark public schools. He was very tense, quiet and cooperative. The female teachers all thought . . . more
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July 03, 2007 03:58 PM EDT --
Yesterday, I went to Philadelphia to see John Edwards speak at the NEA annual meeting, then later at the ACORN presidential candidates forum. Today's diary focuses on the NEA event. Tomorrow . . . more
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April 13, 2007 09:57 PM EDT --
The Ornate Box Turtle officially became the State Reptile of Kansas when Governor John Carlin signed HB 3113 a little after high noon . . . more
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May 24, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
There is no punchline to this one, unfortunately. This article stems from ty phoon's post : http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977007885 Until I read this post, I hadn't . . . more
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