Category: Lloyd Lofthouse

  • We can only hope this is the Beginning of the End of Corporate Education Reform

    Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The Associated Press reported on September 6, 2016 that ITT Tech, with more than 35,000 students, will close all of its campuses after federal aid sanctions. The AP reported, “Under President Barack Obama, the Education Department has led a crackdown on for-profit colleges that have misled students or failed to deliver…

  • Will the Real Donald Trump Please Stand and Keep His Mouth Shut

    Donald Trump’s father funded his early real estate ventures and when The Donald got in trouble, daddy bailed him out.

  • Blue vs Red America

    In the United States, the president is elected by the 538 votes in the U.S. Electoral College.

  • What reading level should you write for?

    Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” has a 4th grade reading level.

  • The Donald Trump Campaign’s Latest Stupidity Explodes on Twitter

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Donald Trump’s spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, who is as ignorant as the Donald is and probably has the same narcissist ego, took to Twitter and blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the death of Captain Humayun Khan, who Trump insulted when he insulted the hero’s parents when the mother did not talk at…

  • Breaking News: ACLU finds many illegal policies in Charter Schools

    A new report released today by the ACLU and Public Advocates (a California civil rights organization) entitled Unequal Access: How Some California Charter Schools Illegally Restrict Enrollment has … Source: Breaking News: ACLU finds many illegal policies in Charter Schools

  • The Ignorance of Donald Trump on Display with another Foolish Twitter Rant as he insults a U.S. Marine

    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: Donald J. Trump went on another Twitter rampage after the Democratic National Convention ended, and in one Tweet he said, “General John Allen, who I never met but spoke against me last night, failed badly in his fight against ISIS. His record = BAD #Never Hillary”. This is another example of how ignorant…

  • Don’t let your emotions decide who you will vote for in the 2016 Presidential Election

    Fifty-five percent of Donald Trump’s statements are totally false or worse compared to 14 percent for Hillary Clinton.

  • A brief history of America’s climb out of the slime, and its return to the muck

    Russia’s Putin, a former KGB agent, autocrat and dictator, and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, a brutal dictator for life, have endorsed Donald Trump for President.

  • George Lakoff: Understanding the Appeal of Donald Trump

    Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: George Lakoff, the psycholinguist, is expert in explaining how people respond to verbal messages. His book “Don’t Think of an Elephant,” was a best-seller. I met Lakoff a few years back and asked him about how to frame issues in the education debate. We spent two hours talking. He left a lasting lesson with…