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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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Well, 2007 is almost over! It’s time to take a clear, hard and honest look at what has happened during 2007 in education. Although there were a few small triumphs in individual schools over the last year, by and large, there were no great accomplishments.
The battle over No Child Left Behind continued through the year, [...]
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PETE and REPEAT
If you’ve been reading this blog for any time at all, you already know everything that Tommy Thompson and Roy Barnes have to say in their article published today in the Washington Times.com.
Tommy Thompson, a Republican, is former secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and former governor of Wisconsin. [...]
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We are seeing massive increases in the diagnoses of psychiatric disorders in America’s children.
In 1994, there were twenty thousand documented cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Today, there are 800 thousand cases. That’s forty times as many diagnoses! But ADHD is just one diagnosis.
What about the massive increase in Bipolar [...]
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Again I have a story from the New York Times. This was written by Michael Winerip and reports the results of a new study by the Educational Testing Service (E.T.S.), which develops and administers over 50 million standardized tests annually, including the SAT. The study, entitled “The Family: America’s Smallest School” concludes that a lot [...]
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Wow! This morning I read an article by Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center and Editor of The DeWeese Report.
I say “Wow!”, because this is quite an article.
Mr. DeWeese makes a solid argument that there is a a deliberate conspiracy on the part of the Department of Education and the National Education Association [...]
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Everyone is concerned, and rightly so, about children becoming proficient in math and reading. What is often forgotten is how important it is to nurture creativity in those young minds as well. Children allowed to express themselves through art, play and music actually perform better in ALL subjects.
ART GIFTS: Encourage your budding artist [...]
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I was reading an interesting blog entitled www.friendsofdave.org when I came across his post about a survey, released by the National Endowment for the Arts, that I had previously commented on.
I simply had to respond.
“I read your post about the study released by the National Endowment for the Arts. I agree with much of what [...]
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