Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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The Difference Between Johnson and McKenna
24 Jul 2014Did you know there’s an election in three weeks? If you do not live in LAUSD’s first district, you might…
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Hubris Of The Hoch-Tech
21 Jul 2014What is it with high tech entrepreneurs and the hubris of their bastardized version of noblesse oblige? First came Bill…
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People to Politicians: Address The Needy
14 Jul 2014As a child I wondered of my elders ‘where were you’ during WWII? Why had you not “done something”? And…
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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…
