common sense
How Convenient
Tea parties issue demands to Tennessee legislators » The Commercial Appeal The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority [...]
What do they teach in government classes anyway?
Guess who said the following: The Washington Monthly “What am I, not supposed to have health care?” he said. “It’s practicality. I’m not going to become a burden for the state because I don’t have health care, and God forbid I get into an accident and I can’t afford the operation. That can happen to [...]
More Evidence of Education System Failure from Corpus Christi
Wanna bet she thinks 25% of our budget goes for foreign aid instead of less than one percent? Your Turn – Jan. 2, 2011 – San Antonio Express-News Money sent to foreign countries should be discontinued until our debt has been paid.
Another failure of the education system?
Do students even read Orwell’s 1984 any more? Or is everyone okay just living it?The Washington Monthly But it’s the speed with which the right-wing shift occurred that’s truly impressive. It was, after all, April 2009 when Upton characterized climate change as “a serious problem that necessitates serious solutions.” That was last year. It was [...]
More evidence of the failure of the education system
They remember the lesson on civic participation but fail miserably at civic knowledge. Now everyone together, say it-filibuster. Your turn – Monday, December 20, 2010 – San Antonio Express-News Candace King’s Dec. 14 letter said: “Texas Sens. Cornyn and Hutchison and the rest of the heartless Republican senators showed how callous they are by denying [...]
More evidence of the failures of our education system
9/11 Responders blame the Democrats for not getting their health bill passed. The Washington Monthly The assumption is based on an idea — Congress operates by majority rule — that should be true but isn’t. For much of the country, procedures like “filibusters,” “secret holds,” and “cloture votes” are completely foreign. Indeed, it’s very likely [...]
An Inconvienent Truth
I was listening to a story on NPR this morning about how manufacturers have taken phosphates out of dishwasher detergent. As a result, dishes aren’t coming as clean as they once had. One of the persons interviewed about the problem said she wasn’t so sure that phosphates caused algae blooms and so they should put [...]
Clearly thinking is not a requirement for school management
Suit: Pa. school spied on students via laptops – Yahoo! News A federal lawsuit accuses a suburban Philadelphia school district of spying on students at home through school-issued laptop webcams. I’m trying to envision this. How did it happen that the school issued laptops, someone put software on them that allowed the school to access [...]
Or maybe their just lazy?
Now the article shows pictures of what I assume are brain scans but no where does it say that’s what they did. In other words, maybe the brain hasn’t been rewired but the expectations lowered? EducationNews.org – Internet rewiring youngsters’ brains A survey designed to examine the internet’s impact on the brain examined how 100 [...]
Do you think he’ll write a book on successful management techniques?
Texas Tech head coach suspended The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reported that Leach locked sophomore receiver Adam James in a closet because he thought the player was faking a concussion. I’m really having problems envisioning the scene. Not the getting the kid into the closet part but what the other adults at the scene were doing. Did [...]