Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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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?…
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An Aha! Moment: Charters == Vouchers
05 Aug 2013“Charter Schools” is an emotional term that invokes a sort of shimmering gateway of hope. It sends a siren’s signal…
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Are charter schools public schools?
01 Aug 2013It depends on what you mean by “public”. The term doesn’t seem to have a well-nailed-down meaning. As befits an…
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“There they go again”
29 Jul 2013Remember Reagan’s air traffic controllers? The ones he fired? And the privatizing of our public air waves? And the deregulation…
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Fun, Learning And Service: One Big Benefit Of Big Government
25 Jul 2013Forget “BayWatch”, think KidWatch Extraordinaire. Who knew those quintessential singles, the famous First Responders of our surf-churned Pacific frontier, were…
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An Interloper’s Collateral Damage: bleeding our district schools dry
21 Jul 2013It’s upsetting to have your organization’s assets stolen. Re-configuring public schools into carved-up smaller bites means not only instituting inefficiencies…
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Build It And They Will Come
18 Jul 2013The first time I set foot in my local district school my eldest was eleven years old. I am ashamed…
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Internecine Dramas At LAUSD (which comes first, maturity or accountability?)
15 Jul 2013Some rather juvenile behavior is being bandied about over at Beaudry. Perhaps this shouldn’t be surprising but the level of…
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Watch Those Numbers Carefully
11 Jul 2013Just exactly how do we know a school is “failing”? Since there is no consensus as to what “education” even…
