Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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“Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”
09 May 2013I listened to LAUSD’s head honcho call himself a “numbers guy” recently: “…mathematics, chemistry, physics – I get that; I’m…
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Sunday, Sobbing Sunday
05 May 2013Exhausted beyond measure at the close of Big Sunday, a city-wide day of public service, there is nothing I want…
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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…
