Tag Archives: Education Reform

What an Education-Free World…

Education is preventive care! If you can’t afford it and society doesn’t provide it, you go without. Those in the middle class would spend huge percentages of their income to educate their children. Continue reading

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Mitochondria, Co-Tangents and Plath- Oh My!

Name 5 pillars of American Literature who wrote during the 17th, 18th, or 19th century. This question was posed in some random party game I recently played. Neither I, nor my teammates, could muster any more than 4 correct responses. Our opponents laughed at us. A few rounds later, they were tasked with naming 5 parts of a typical cell (nucleus, ribosome, mitochondria, etc). They couldn’t do it. And we laughed a sweet, vengeful laugh. Continue reading

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Find the Cure

Our enthusiasm, our innovation, our passion – those are the things that will lead us to better things in our education system, and in best meeting the needs of our students. Continue reading

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Waiting for Superman

A new film from the director of An Inconvenient Truth is examining the broken system of education.  Here’s the trailer for Waiting for Superman:  http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/ What do you think?  Is the education system broken? If you will see the film … Continue reading

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