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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. … Read more
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International PISA test misconceptions (lies, lies and more lies) when comparing the US public schools to the world
The U.S. administration of the most recent international (PISA) test resulted in students from the most disadvantaged schools being over-represented in the overall U.S. test-taker sample. Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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The ignorance of tea party conservatives is so outrageous it’s scary
Will the real tea party movement please come out of the racist closet. Read more
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