Archive for the ‘General News’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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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, ...
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