Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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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…
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Threats That Aren’t
08 Jul 2013The Los Angeles Times claims the LAUSD Superintendent “Dr.” John Deasy threatened to quit if Dr. Richard Vladovic were elected…
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Talk is pretty darned cheap
03 Jul 2013… yet money talks and without it, you’re just mute. Or moot? Voiceless, ignored. Manipulable. Education policy has been in…
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Class Size Still Matters – for goose and gander alike
27 Jun 2013How is it a “fact” that “across the board re-staffing, which is what Zimmer, et al. have proposed [at the…
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BATS Light Up White House Phones
24 Jun 2013A coalition of teachers from across the country known as “Badass Teachers” (“BATS”) has come together — nearly 15,000 of…
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Best. Reality. TV. Ever.
20 Jun 2013Tuesday’s LAUSD school board meeting provided more than fourteen (14) hours of High Drama on Beaudry Street. Angeleno educational stakeholders…
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Click… *kaboom*. That’s it.
17 Jun 2013Why would a bunch of rabble-rousers invoke imagery of murder and mayhem when engaging parents? Why call to mind Sandy…
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Counting Matters
15 Jun 2013Any statistician will tell you: it’s hard to count. Hard to count accurately, hard to count properly: hard, often, even…
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Align our voices, SPARC a movement
13 Jun 2013Students, Parents and Angelenos: Link arms and collectively speak out! We need to be heard as one, a united constituency…
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Size Matters … and small is not always good
13 Jun 2013Our national healthcare debate has employed tortured arguments for years to rationalize sustaining umpteen health care plans. It is claimed…
