Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain
19 Sep 2013On Tuesday the LATimes editorialized about “dysfunction” at the LA school board. They criticized the board for discussing the “minutiae”…
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Follow Aquino’s Yellow Brick Road…
16 Sep 2013Last Friday — the 13th, no less — yielded some surprisingly providential news as Superintendent Deasy’s top deputy, Jaime Aquino,…
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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…
