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Comparing the Best Thinkers to Bill Gates and President Obama’s Common Core agenda
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Harvard reports that The Best Thinkers Have 7 ‘Thinking Dispositions’, and they all require critical thinking and problem solving skills. Critical thinking is mentioned twice in the piece. Nowhere does the Harvard study mention the importance of high test scores in math, literacy or science. Harvard… Read more
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What does a scorpion and a frog have to do with the blame-game focused on China, the public schools or Obama?
Over the last ten years ending in 2008, manufacturing increased 22 percent while millions of jobs were lost to automation. Read more
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Comparing a virtual book tour to the traditional, and why go on a book tour in the first place?
How is a virtual book tour different and why is it important? Read more
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Political agendas and the relationship between Cause and Effect when comparing Republicans and Democrats in 2014
Eighty-percent of the states with the worst quality of life are controlled by Republican Party political agendas. Read more
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Read Anthony Cody’s New Book “The Educator and the Oligarch”
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Anthony Cody just published a book about his efforts to educate Bill Gates. The book is called “The Educator and the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges Bill Gates.” Please buy it and read it. Bill Gates has used his billions to impose his ideas, despite his total lack of experience… Read more
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David Coleman’s Common Core War against what children think and feel
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Common Core Education without Representation lists David Coleman as #9 on the top-ten list for scariest people in—fake—education reform. Coleman is the lead “architect” for the English Language Arts (ELA) portion of the Common Core, and he is not an educator, but he is a businessman.… Read more