Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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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…
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Refreshing The Painted Turtle
06 Jun 2013No!… Not the Painted Turtle!! There should be some special exemption from commonplace calamities like the Powerhouse Fire for such…
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A Wavering Chain Of Command
05 Jun 2013$ince everything Educational is really all about Business these days, let’s consider this analogy. Let’s say “Lily” is a consultant…
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It’s Just Good Business
05 Jun 2013Business is all about receiving a fifty-dollar return on a two-dollar investment. Beyond admiring such payback, our modern capitalist democracy…
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Waiting For Proposition 30 (and its funds)
03 Jun 2013Remember the fierce euphoria upon passing proposition 30? It promised to break the educational economic drought and channel money back…