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education reform

  Issues in Education By Anthony Slawinski Education is the single most important thing to keep this country moving forward as the world’s only super power.  However, in recent years, it seems that...

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OBE: Outcome Based Education, Cult of Death of New Age and the Columbine High School massacre

Outcome Based Education (OBE) is under attack both in the U.S. and Europe for promoting illiteracy and other scholastic deficiencies. William Spady, a sociologist, is the self-proclaimed father of OBE. He...

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How to Save Our Schools:Recognize Teachers as Heroes

Everybody knows who Babe Ruth was. Millions watch the Jerry Rices of our world catch footballs and the Lance Armstrongs race through France. But how many people can name the winner of an award won by a teacher...

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How to Ruin Youth with Bad Sex Education

© P. Inglish 2009. I was eventually required to design, write, and present a course for sex education to two group homes of individuals with MR/DD, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. The...

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Aruments Against Educational Collective Bargaining

According to a 2007 issue brief from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, collective bargaining is a threat to public school reform. According to the authors, public schools across the U.S create collective...

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Using Scored Discussions

How do you know if students really understand what the class has been covering? One of the easiest ways to check student's understanding is by using scored discussions. Scored discussions are easy to run in...

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Home-School.Com: an astonishing interview with John Taylor Gatto

If you don't know John Taylor Gatto, he was the astonishing teacher who resigned after being named Teacher of the Year (read my former article here). Nevertheless in his announcement to the Wall Street Journal...

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John Taylor Gatto - the teacher who resigned after being named Teacher of the Year

He was named New York City Teacher of the year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. "When voicing his acceptance speech to this latter, on that momentous day, January 31,...

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