Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Should Common Core Override Common Sense?
12 Sep 2013The latest salvo from federally-forced EdReform, the “Common Core” and its implementation, seems to be branded by a scarcity of…
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But … Magical Thinking Does Not Belong In Classrooms
09 Sep 2013LAUSD’s director of curriculum and instruction, Gerardo Loera, “can’t reiterate enough about the excitement in the field about improved instruction”,…
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The water fountains are still broken
05 Sep 2013Two years after graduating, an LAUSD alum informed his school board that the water fountain that had been broken when…
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The Violence Of “Parent Trigger”
29 Aug 2013“I’m the rubber and, You’re the glue; Your words bounce off me, And stick back on you”. Probably the most…
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A Nation of Impatient, Overactive Guardians, Filling Our Charges with a Lifetime of Anxiety
26 Aug 2013“They need to do this much homework now because it’s coming in Middle School; they have to get ready”!!! This…
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Part Of The Problem
22 Aug 2013As one who is fairly partisan politically, it is most uncomfortable to note my growing alienation from formerly exclusive political…
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Libraries, Musical programs, and Massive Classes — Oh My!
19 Aug 2013Who’s in charge at LAUSD anyway? With a budget larger than the LACity Council’s, there are just 7 elected officials…
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They Don’t Build Lecture Halls In High School
15 Aug 2013School’s open. And many of the classes in my child’s district public High School have between 40 and 50 students…
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What Is Reputation?
12 Aug 2013Is my child going to a good school? How do I know? How does my neighbor know? What constitutes a…
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Summertime Sinks From Sight
07 Aug 2013A friend from Georgia writes that kids were back to school last Tuesday. LAST TUESDAY?! The first week of August?…
