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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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    Learning Twitter for authors; then tweeting magic

    I had no idea how to use Twitter or Facebook properly. Both sites confused me and Facebook still does.

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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.

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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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    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.

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    What source do you get your news from and should you trust it?

    Watch both Fox and CNN news for a better idea of the truth or maybe only NPR.

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    a day in the life of assistance

    Originally posted on Graciela Guzman: It’s hard to explain a new field of work to the public: you get a lot of “what is that?” “what do you do?” “is that even a job?”Assisters are a brand new position for most institutions like mine. To add to the confusion, they can be called several things: in person counselors, certified application…