Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Ratliff Is Not The Problem
06 Mar 2014The new LAUSD district 6 school board (BOE) member, Mónica Ratliff, is being blamed – personally and explicitly and completely…
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Schools Require A Functional Exchange of Information Too
03 Mar 2014Several years ago before we were to leave the country for a year one of my children and I tried…
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It’s a Trust Thing
27 Feb 2014My first Earful Of Schoolboard Member involved mapping ‘three critical things’ about education (at 9:21), the middle of which was…
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An Ode To Modern Advancement
20 Feb 2014a letter into the ether, regarding public policies of privacy beyond my control. I think my last day to dither about…
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Blaming The Victim
20 Feb 2014There is little about this era of Education Reform that so flummoxes me as the latter day “new, improved” standing…
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Jailing Beings
17 Feb 2014What distinguishes us from plants? Muscle. We move. That’s what we do. It’s important and it’s one of our hallmarks.…
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Abandoning Children’s Privacy
13 Feb 2014The time has come for my youngster to confront immanent militaristic ipad “deployment” and all this implies for privacy and…
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TNSTAAFL
10 Feb 2014There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Which includes even that Apple on teacher’s desk. Our superintendent John Deasy,…
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Ipad, Upad
06 Feb 2014We’re all going for ipads here in LAUSD and who’s to say the technology gap isn’t in fact a hallmark…
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Parents Are Labor’s Client
03 Feb 2014My principal job as a parent is to nurture my children. I feed, clothe and house them. I scrutinize their…
