Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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The Face Of Authentic School Reform
10 Jul 2014How do you complain about a system you support? Because it’s been suggested that criticizing LAUSD only feeds its demise…
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Our Shameless Elders
03 Jul 2014What is it with babyboomers and their parents that they should express such shameless contempt for their youngers? The spectacle…
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School’s Out … Now What??
30 Jun 2014There seems to be some rather large unfinished business on the newly-approved seven-billion-dollar-budget-strong LAUSD table. Namely, the approximately one-billion dollar…
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Our Own Effort Is The Common Thread In Democracy
23 Jun 2014I think some of those who moan loudest about the dissolution of the social fabric are themselves most complicit in…
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Trusting Tax Expenditures
16 Jun 2014As an LAUSD parent of just four-years’ standing, there is a vast, murky gulf of incomprehension regarding this school system,…
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Another Parable: Remember The Eyes Of The Beholder
11 Jun 2014Years ago my college roommate embarked on a several-months-long exercise mooning over a guy whom I, her roommate, was treated…
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Education Overturned
05 Jun 2014“Teaching To The Test” is a pegagogical revolution. Far from benign, it amounts to a coup d’état of not only…
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A Parable For The Common Core
02 Jun 2014Once upon a time “Mary” grew older. Approaching the age of 16, it became legally permissible for her to drive…
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What Parents Should Know About School Bonds And Our LAUSD Citizens’ Oversight Committee:
26 May 2014There is a political brouhaha going on right now that really deserves your attention. Your attention as a parent, as…
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Their Job Is To Learn
10 Mar 2014….not to send feedback flowing through your system. My children’s job is to learn while they are young. That is…
