Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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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…
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It’s The Fairness, Stupid
03 Apr 2013What’s wrong with the state of education in our country? Some children are permitted more privilege than others. Is yours…
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What Constitutes a School’s Constituency?
01 Apr 2013I was very surprised to be asked recently to provide a “parent’s” perspective on an educational issue. I didn’t know…
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Kids These Days
13 Mar 2013It’s a marvel of PR work that come the 2010’s ,“Teachers” could have been relegated to a condition of such…
