New, Workable Education Reform Concept

Don Kingsland, author of “Set Our Teachers FREE! A Plan to Save Public Education” is back with another “dream sequence”. He’s kinda goofy, but lovable! ~ ~

Life with Don is never boring!
Brennan ~ ~
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Education and Student to Teacher Ratios

This week’s Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s “Fun Fact Friday” video disputes the claim that more money, and smaller class sizes, are the answer to fixing problems in education!.

Fun Fact Friday! – Student/Teacher Ratio from Education Gadfly on Vimeo.

Kind of interesting, isn’t it?
And would you care to guess what the student-to-teacher ratio is in India (rapidly turning out the most advanced …

Lack of Moral Leadership

There is an appalling lack of moral leadership role models for our students today in the USA.
Don Kingsland points out the problem in “Set Our Teachers FREE!”:
“In our society, it seems that no one makes a decision without taking a poll first, to see
which decision is the most popular. And, of course, if the polls change, so do the alleged
convictions. …

Halfway Through 2009 in Education

2009 is Half Over!

We are firmly into the second half of 2009, and all of the same issues seem to be brewing on the education front.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has pretty much gone the way of the Dodos, even with it’s supporters. As expected, a recent Supreme Court ruling re: diversity guidelines has school districts rumbling and scrambling. And …

Heading the WRONG WAY in Education!

Wrong Way in Education

Ya’ know, $200 Billion dollars to fix USA public schools sounds like it could work, right?
Doesn’t the idea of having state of the art science and math labs for students sound like a good idea?
Shouldn’t we reward good teachers and get rid of the bad ones?
It all sounds so simple and possible. But, from what I’ve seen, …

The Illusion of Education Reform

Are the Big Boys trying to fool us about Education Reform? What do you think?

Education Taking Another Expensive Bath?

Looks like Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is meeting with some resistance to his plan to CLOSE all the failing schools, fire all the staff, rehire NEW people, then re-open the schools.
I wonder why? Hmmm!
Could this be another case of “throwing out the baby with the bath water?”
Maybe ANOTHER big waste of education dollars?
Duncan told the New York Times:
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An Unlikely Education Trio!

Things must really be as bad on the education front, as I’ve been saying for the last couple of years. What! You don’t think being ranked 24th globally is too bad?
Well . . .
With the current administration throwing BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars at the problem, an unlikely trio met with the Prez and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, …

A Father’s Response: Responses To Teen Sexting Posts

Today I want to share a comment I received from a father of two daughters. His insight into the problem of teen “sexting” comes from first-hand experience.
This type of discussion needs to be brought into public awareness.
Randy Boise writes:

Do parents realize that sexting can be the next step toward having sex? Both of my …

Responses to Teen Sexting Post

Sexting Photo Published by NBC ACTION NEWS

We’ve been getting lots of responses on both sites to the Teen Sexting article. I thought I’d share just a couple of them with you and ask for your opinion.
I tried to pick a picture from Google Images that was as modest as possible and that had already been shown nationwide. There are far …

Teens + Sexting = Felony Child Pornography?

April is Child Abuse Prevention month. This is a month to become aware of the different types of child abuse and what we can do to prevent or diminish it.
There just may be one type of child abuse that you aren’t familiar with – “sexting” – which is becoming more widespread daily.
We all know that cell phones with cameras have …