Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

Professor, do your job!

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

In Stanley Fish's new book, "Professor, Do Your Job," he writes, "The only advocacy that should go on in the classroom is the advocacy of what James Murphy has identified as the intellectual virtues: thoroughness, perseverance, intellectual honesty; all concepts of the cardinal academic virtues of being 'conscientious in the ...

Educations “Wag the Dog”: Geniuses Lost

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Monday, May 25, 2008 Education News It is like someone shouted "FIRE" in a theater, but nobody moved.Is the theater empty?No, it's full of people, but still nobody moved or even cared.We are losing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of potential geniuses every year in the United States because we are just ...

Harding Family Sends 11 year-old Homeschooler to College

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I want to meet this family who lives in the same city where our state school board meets! Healthy Family Harding Family Website CNN Video

Marva Collins

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Comment: In early fall of 2007, a friend invited me to visit an elementary school in nearby Panama City, Florida, to hear Marva Collins. After teaching "the worst class in the school" for three hours that morning, Mrs. Collins met with the faculty and guests to talk about ...

Psychiatric Help 5¢

Friday, May 16th, 2008

May 16, 2008 Will Fitzhugh Ed News In Peanuts, when we see Lucy offering Psychiatric Help for a nickel, we know it is a joke: ("The Psychiatrist is IN"), but when English teachers in the schools insist that students write about the most intimate details of their private lives for school assignments, ...