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Summertime Fun!
Well, we’re over halfway into June and already the heat is blasting in our part of the world. Kids and grandkids have already been on picnics, gone swimming and spent the night with sleep-overs at their friend’s houses. Today, with the weather sweltering outside, I heard the famous summertime phrase for the first time [...]
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Rising From the Ashes for Education Reform
I wanted to start this post with a picture of the mystical Phoenix being reborn.
The first thing I would like to do is thank my readers who stuck by me during my recent brush with illness/death. Your kind wishes and financial support for our animal sanctuary rescues meant [...]
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‘A NATION AT RISK: THE IMPERATIVE FOR EDUCATIONAL REFORM’
It’s been 25 years since this report was published.
This report was ground-breaking, not only because it demonstrated the trouble U.S. public schools were headed for, but it did it in plain-spoken language, without pulling any punches. One major issue the report demonstrated was
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Today I have a treat for you.
My friend, Clive McGonigal, who has a wickedly delicious sense of humor, commented on one of my articles by sending me a fantastic website and a video to view. Clive is an Englishman, living in France, conducting a worldwide business, and he is funny!
There are so many [...]
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“This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology’s power to engage students in higher level thinking.”bj nesbit on www.TeacherTube.com
Brennan
Save Our Schools
The Kingsland Plan
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At last, what you’ve been waiting for. The New & Improved version of my very first ever, totally done by me video,“Set Our Teachers FREE!”
I’m learning as I go along. This version is a little better, isn’t it?
Brennan
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Has anybody heard anything about when Congress is going to get back to work on No Child Left Behind? With all the furor over the Presidential campaigns, we need to remember to hold Congress accountable for their responsibilities.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, I’m not really a fan of NCLB. I think it was well-intentioned, [...]
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The caucuses in Iowa are over, to be followed by New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday, and then a running jam-packed series of primaries across the nation that finish-up on Feb. 5 when 22 states, including California, hold what is basically a national referendum.
Primaries are being held earlier than ever before and all squeezed-in together, [...]
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Richard Day — http://www.ehealthinsurancesource.com/blog left a telling comment on this site, in response to my post of Monday in which I recapped a few of the failures in education in 2007. Richard wrote,
“The problem with most people is that they feel that spending more money on the existing system is the answer. [...]
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Happy New Year everybody! As you feverishly finish all your New Year’s Resolutions for 2008, I hope you’ll add a commitment to education reform onto your list.
Is there a reason to be concerned? Let’s take a quick look back at a few of the highlights (lowlights?) of the happenings in Education in 2007:
No Child [...]
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