Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Standardized Tests Are The Tail Of Education: they never could wag this puppy, and they shouldn’t try
08 Sep 2014As a young adult, which was by now many, many moons ago, I was drawn – goaded, really – into…
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Restoring The SUPER In Tendent
04 Sep 2014When my home town built a new school in the early ’70’s, a whole era vanished in concert with the…
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What Chumps Feel When Tricked, Cheated Or Deceived: iHad
28 Aug 2014The Edu Revelations coming from west of downtown over on Beaudry are fast and furious, like the responses from all…
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Pass The Popcorn: LA’s Education Establishment Explodes
25 Aug 2014The education news exploding through the tubes via KPCC and the LATimes since last Thursday is absolutely staggering. There is…
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Who’s In Charge Of The Calendar?
21 Aug 2014Starting school in the middle of summer is simply misguided. It’s not just that it implies we perhaps “don’t like…
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The People’s Choice Is McKenna …. for the fourth time
14 Aug 2014LA Wins the Most Shocking Apathy Voter Award all over again. And despite ever-diminishing numbers of voters manages to leverage…
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YOUR VOTE MATTERS ON TUESDAY: Just Say No To Carpetbagging In LAUSD1
11 Aug 2014We’ve endured another nail-biter of a weekend suffused with an oxymoronic army of paid “volunteers” deployed to Get Out their…
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Irresponsible Is As Irresponsible Does
07 Aug 2014John Deasy claims an authority in adjudicating “responsibility” that seems a little premature. With what is itself “breathtaking” hubris, he…
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LAUSD’s New Budget Unveils The “Sophie’s Choice” of Education Reform: How School Choice Is Pushed
04 Aug 2014When we grew our school system from one conducted by itinerant, very young generalists to that of a modern, publicly…
