Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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Shifting myths
01 May 2013Here’s another little story I swallowed whole growing up. That we here in America were different from those across the…
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Where does your interest lie?
29 Apr 2013… Where does mine? I want to be part of a democracy where everyone has an equal chance at “happiness…
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Safety and Happiness: evidence from a public school playground
24 Apr 2013Volunteer badge prominently and proudly displayed, this morning I observed a PE class in a LAUSD middle school on a…
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Dissipate hunger, without diminishing classtime
22 Apr 2013LAUSD will provide Breakfast In The Classroom (BIC) to every schoolchild district-wide next year. Because LAUSD has reduced the number…
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Define the mission of teaching cleanly!
21 Apr 2013They want to do what? Serve Breakfast In Classrooms (BIC) already bereft of janitorial attention? I cannot imagine the LA…
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So quiet, so calm!
18 Apr 2013They pulled the plugs on the electric billboards all around my neighborhood this week. It’s so peaceful in my daughter’s…
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A parent’s vignette of the CST from child-level:
17 Apr 2013Two minutes late for the appointed retrieval time, I receive a frantic phone call from the middle-schooler. By the time…
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Disarticulating Public Schools
16 Apr 2013It was a bad day 30 years ago when some business management-type decided to restructure academic departments to be fiscally…
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Educational Politics 101, take 1
11 Apr 2013Magnet Schools. You’re in good company if you don’t feel quite solid in your understanding of what makes a Magnet…
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Opting Out
08 Apr 2013In this Educational Reform Arena stakeholders are myriad but the directly-affected grow ever fewer. No different from the consolidation and…