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The Bill and Melinda Gates Deceptive PR Machine in Action
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The art of manipulation and fooling people has become an industry of deception. For instance, Katie Couric interviews Melinda Gates about the Gates Foundation’s pledge to donate $1 million to DonorsChoose. Melinda Gates says that million will go to help teachers. To discover the obvious, The Journal.com reports “Public school teachers…
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Running with the Enemy on a Kindle Countdown starting August 24
Kindle Unlimited and Amazon Prime members can read this novel for free.
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Facts that reveal Obama’s Manufactured Crises of College-Career readiness and the alleged Failure of Public Schools
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: What is the role of the public schools? The Center for Ethical Leadership (founded in 1991) says that public education is foundational to a healthy democracy and developing our humanity—not to have every student achieve high scores on standardized tests. After you read this post, you decide if the U.S. public…
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90 sites to advertise your book
Originally posted on James Calbraith: As far as I’m aware, this is the most comprehensive list of book promo sites anywhere on the internet. The list was compiled from various online sources, most notably – Rachelle’s Window (go there and thank her! 🙂 she also lists Alexa rankings for the sites) and my own research. As of posting this on August…
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The politics of the 10 most corrupt states in America
I wanted to know more so I set out to determine the political party strength in each of the ten most corrupt states.
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Looking at the Bill Gates Common Core “Rank and Yank” agenda to Reform Public Education through the lens of the Vergara verdict
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: In the Vergara trial, the judge’s verdict was based on unproven theories that a few incompetent teachers would ruin a child’s ability to earn an education. The numbers presented in one theory were one to two percent of teachers might be incompetent—not “are incompetent” but “might be incompetent” because of classroom…
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Is global warming a hoax and why should we care?
Air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year thanks to billionaire oligarchs like the Koch brothers and their ignorant and foolish supporters.
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What can the United States learn to improve public education and reduce poverty from two Fs
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: The two Fs I’m talking about are Finland and France. In another forum, this comment was made about Finland’s public schools: “Comparisons with Finland are foolish – virtually no childhood poverty, income equality instead of inequality and few immigrants … and high suicide rates.” Here’s my revised reply: What you say…
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Reviewing The Teacher Wars, a History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Reading Dana Goldstein’s book was a journey of discovery that I wished I’d taken in 1975, before I ended up teaching for thirty years in the embattled and often abused public schools. About the time I reached page 100, I e-mailed an old friend and told him that if I’d read…
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This is my PURGE post, and it isn’t a movie review
Originally posted on Crazy Normal – the Classroom Exposé: Sunday, I walked downtown to see The Purge: Anarchy, and while watching the film and walking home afterwards, I couldn’t stop thinking about the unnamed New Founding Fathers mentioned at the beginning of the film—who were in their ninth year as the leaders of the United States. In case you forgot…
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