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If we are going to change the schools, we are going to change America
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Rise Above the Mark is a documentary that focuses on the damage being caused by the “corporate takeover” of America’s public schools. The purpose of Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote, is to educate the general public about the “corporate takeover” of Indiana public schools and what parents, community…
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The View from a Writer’s Window
What do full time writers look at as they work? Where you write is part of the process.
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YES! Reaching the Public with “The Myth of Our Failing Schools”
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: YES! Magazine devotes a special issue to public education and its findings will not surprise readers of this blog. The lead article by executive editor Dean Paton is “The Myth Behind Public School Failure,” demonstrating that our public schools are NOT failing. Here is the line that follows the title: “In the rush to…
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Reader: The Chief Factor Behind “Global Competitiveness” Is….?
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: A sage comment by a reader: “The chief purpose of the Common Core standards –– one cited by the Common Core initiative, and repeatedly echoed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Business Roundtable, and Arne Duncan and the like –– is that the standards are necessary to enable American students and the American…
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Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, (seriously) needs Tutoring
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: On her Blog, Diane Ravitch reports: “According to Duncan, our kids are dumb. Their parents spoil them. The kids don’t work hard enough. Furthermore, our culture stinks: No one takes education seriously, except Duncan, of course.” How does Arne Duncan—with President Obama’s obvious support—want to fix this problem? The answer: close…
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Five jobs—includes teachers—that come with the threat of regret
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Taylor Dupuy writing for Monster.com listed five jobs that are likely to leave people disappointed. Number three on the list was Secondary School Teachers—my job for twenty-seven of the thirty years I was in the classroom. Regret also means: anguish; annoyance; bitterness; disappointment; discomfort, dissatisfaction; etc. All emotions I felt one…
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Are the good-old Politically Correct Parent Wars heating up?
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: When Amy Chua came out with her memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in 2011, thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s headline Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior—a headline that Chua didn’t write—a firestorm of criticism was unleashed. Chua even received death threats and because I defended her parenting methods in…
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Looking at IQ and learning if the level of intelligence has anything to do with success in life: Part 1 of 3
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: View as Single Page Over on Diane Ravitch’s Blog, a site to discuss better education for all [highly recommended to discover what’s going on in public education in the United States], I left a comment for one of her posts that mentioned an author’s lecture I attended back in the 1980s.…
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