Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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A Future So Bright…
24 Oct 2013So far is it that we have evolved in our public school system that I no longer use yesterday’s method…
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Procedure And Policy As Political Wedge: LAUSD Children Cannot Learn Amid Chaos
21 Oct 2013Why is there so much strife among the daily unfoldings of LAUSD? > Parents protesting the mid-year re-organization of designated…
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It’s The Priorities
17 Oct 2013When I toured middle schools I was struck by the relative ratio of computers:students at local institutions. The local private…
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Avoid Worsening “ipadgate”: Talk To Users, Listen To Users, Pilot Decisions Before Moving Ahead
14 Oct 2013Amidst all the sound and fury surrounding LAUSD’s “ipadgate” or “ivebeenhadgate”, there is a sanguine voice that recalls: If there…
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When Democracy Sounds Harmonious
10 Oct 2013For those of you who raised children, perhaps you remember those first moments breathing the same air? It was hard…
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Broader, Fairer, Better: Education Today
07 Oct 2013Whatever happened to education? It’s gotten better and better and fairer and fairer! What’s happened to education is that it…
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It’s Not “Accountability” We Need, It’s “Responsibility”
03 Oct 2013“Accountability”, I’ve noticed, is a term generally employed by those seeking to avoid it, by bullying into silence those susceptible…
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Today’s Homework: Dr. Diane Ravitch
30 Sep 2013Do you know the name “Diane Ravitch”? Do you know who she is? Before becoming involved with education politics some…
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I Say Poverty, You Say “Lunch, Anyone”?
26 Sep 2013How many children in LAUSD are “poor”? What does poverty look like in LAUSD; how is it concentrated? It turns…
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Exploiting Vulnerabilities
23 Sep 2013They really seem to be doing it, following through with distributing ipads to one and all in LAUSD. To myself…
