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Ashana Bigard: New Orleans is a Failing District
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Ashana Bigard is a parent advocate. She wrote this article for “The Progressive.” She is aware that politicians are promoting New Orleans as a national model. She warns that the “reforms” are a fraud. She says, talk to the parents, not the hucksters. “As a New Orleans parent and an active member of my…
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The Politics of Deceit
Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Every Thursday afternoon I drive to a local VA medical clinic and join a veteran writers group. One of the regular members, who never served in combat, seems obsessed with the glory of war. He can’t seem to hear enough stories from us combat vets. To listen to him, it seems that he…
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The 1.6 Ton Concrete Stairway Procrastination Project
Writing this post about building a concrete stairway and sidewalk gave me an excuse to avoid working on the last chapter in the first novel of The Last Sorcerer series.
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The Complexity of Belief vs the Reality of Racism – a review of “Go Set A Watchman”
When the sequel of “To Kill A Mockingbird” came out, the first thing I read was one or more of the politically correct mobs lashing out when they condemned the book because of an early scene in the novel that depicts Atticus Finch as a racist.
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Is David Coleman a psychopath, and what does that mean for the rest of us if it’s true?
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: When David Coleman said, “no one gives a shit about how you think and feel,” did that reveal his psychological profile as an alleged psychopath? As an alleged psychopath and one of the key architects behind the Common Core (so-called) State Standards agenda and the corporate education reform movement to privatize public education…
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Give the guy a break for having sex at age 15, and then doing it repeatedly
As a young man, in spite of his Methodist conscience, he had bouts of promiscuity.
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The Conspiracy that is not a Theory – What the Overwhelming Evidence Reveals
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: There is the court of law, an arm of the judicial branch of government that hears cases and administers justice based on statutes of common law, and then there is the court-of-public-opinion usually driven—right or wrong—by emotion without the kind of evidence that might lead to a conviction in a court…
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Who Funded Jeb’s “Foundation for Educational Excellence”?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Jeb Bush created the “Foundation for Educational Excellence” with two goals in mind. First, to burnish his credentials as a “reformer.” Second, to serve as a vehicle for advocating vouchers, charters, online learning, and high-stakes accountability. Peter Greene writes that we now know who contributed large sums to Jeb’s FEE. We may safely assume…
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Fuel for thought — a few facts about the 4th of July and who votes in the United States
Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: After posting Will the Real 4th of July Please Stand Up on July fourth, this is my sequel. Smile, hopefully Big Brother is not watching you on camera yet. 35.5 Million: Number of People Traveling by Car to celebrate the 4th of July with family and friends. 150 Million: Number of Hot Dogs…
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My thoughts on this Fourth of July 2015
Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: While I’m an apple pie fan, my thoughts were not on fireworks or celebrating the 4th. My wife, who arrived in America in 1986 on a student visa from China and who is now a U.S. citizen, is the one who bought the flag that hangs outside our house. My job was to…
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