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Comment on Cynthia Dunbar is scary by JoeyTranchina

JoeyTranchina — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:15:36 +0000

I actually disagree with your headline. Cynthia Dunbar is not “Scary.” Cynthia Dunbar is nuts. What is SCARY is that over 225,000 Texan voted for this loon. Everyone has the right to say irrational things, even with absurd presumptions of historical authority. This is a free country. Freedom is the right to be wrong. But, we will not have a free country for long, if a majority of citizens are so ignorant that the preposterous nonsense Mrs. Dunbar espouses wins elections.

Comment on So who’s going to stop them? by Barry_

Barry_ — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:05:56 +0000

The only thing that can stop them is people with closed minds that want to teach evolution and origins as a dogma. What could be more boring than to act as though all the tough questions have been solved.

It has always amazed me that evolution is the only theory that needs laws to protect it from criticism.

A scientific theory must be looked at critically and from all sides. If discussing evidence that would seem to disconfirm the theory makes it ‘appear a travesty of unscientific reasoning’, that is not the fault of the evidence. And it is not the fault of the students who many would want to insulate from any such evidence.

The theory must stand or fall on the evidence. All of it.

If we can’t tell them the whole story, we shouldn’t tell them anything, and nobody wants that. Selectively teaching only the supportive evidence isn’t teaching, it’s indoctrination.

Students love a good controversy and bright intellectual minds want to search for answers to tough problems. If we ignore the problems and the controversy, we do these young people a disservice. Let’s tell them the truth.

Comment on Community Colleges: To go or not to go by rose

rose — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:39:03 +0000

Please see new landmark legislation under House Bill 1. Dual Credit in a community college is transferrable “by law” to any state college or university.

There are so many reasons parents need to get behind this bill. Students now have the ‘right’ to get a 2-year associate’s degree simultaneously with their high school diploma. That doesn’t mean many of them want to work that hard.

Please read:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/comm/06dcp_report.pdf

You owe it to yourself to utilize this great opportunity for our state’s kids. ISD’s which do not offer dual credit options in all of their 4 core areas for both at least juniors and seniors in high school are behind the curve.

Best wishes!

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Motivation 101 - How NOT to « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:57:38 +0000

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Staying competitive: Do the math « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:34:04 +0000

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Comment on Top 10 Percent–we meant income, not grades by Texas Ed Spectator » Blog Archive » Maybe we need more “Tier 1″ universities…

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:30:20 +0000

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Comment on Randolph-Macon College by Get Into College! » Randolph-Macon College

Get Into College! » Randolph-Macon College — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:31:22 +0000

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Randolph-Macon College « Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:03:15 +0000

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Comment on College Admissions Selectivity Equals Quality? by Get Into College! » College Admissions Selectivity Equals Quality?

Get Into College! » College Admissions Selectivity Equals Quality? — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:45:45 +0000

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