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Another educational fad invades an American school district: Part 5 of 5 23 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
View as Single Page I wrote back to my friend and said what was happening in his/her school district was nothing new. During my thirty years as a classroom teacher—especially after standardized testi...
Another educational fad invades an American school district: Part 4 of 5 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
View as Single Page My friend’s e-mail went on: “I feel like teaching has become ALL science-based. Education officials [elected school board members and district level administrators] forget that te...
Another educational fad invades an American school district: Part 3 of 5 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
View as Single Page Back to my old friend who wrote in his/her email, “Regarding curriculum, I just attended a depressing workshop. The three-day workshop was about the new Common Core Standards (CCS...
Another educational fad invades an American school district: Part 2 of 5 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
View as Single Page My friend, who is still teaching—with nearly 30 years of experience—is not happy with his/her school district. I’m deliberately avoiding revealing who he/she is, because I’ve seen...
Another educational fad invades an American school district: Part 1 of 5 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
View as Single Page Before I comment on what a friend—who is still in the classroom teaching—wrote in a recent e-mail about the district he/she teaches in, I want to mention my own thirty years as a ...
The Golden Age of Education in America is Today 12 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
The United States has never had a Golden Age of Education unless it is happening today, but the media and politicians with political/religious agendas—without exception—misrepresent the truth. The ar...
The Food Wars 9 Aug 2013 | 07:11 pm
Reblogged from Lloyd Lofthouse: Elements of agriculture and the food industry have been at war with healthy lifestyles for decades. For example, on one side there is the fast-food, sugar, soda, meat...
The truth hurts over a tee shirt 8 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
It seems that many Americans don’t want to see the truth when it hits them in the eyes, and political correctness spoke up once again. Parents/adults who refuse to see the truth in front of their eye...
Learning from the world’s best in education or not 7 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Why can’t the United States learn from the best education systems in the world? The Huffington Post reported that Finland and South Korea top country rankings while the U.S. is rated average at 17th ...
Fixing the Self-Esteem Train Wreck 5 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
The self-esteem generation may be fixing the cultural train wreck caused by the average Baby Boomer parent. But before I talk about how the Self-Esteem Generation—known as the Me, Me, Me people or th...
