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Friday, June 25th, 2010
Alabama educational officials started the ball rolling on what education might look like if the state Board of Education decides to join other states in adopting nationwide standards for core courses in English and math.
But at least one board member was concerned at a Thursday meeting that the process of ...
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Monday, August 31st, 2009
August 31, 2009
Dothan Eagle
State school board member Betty Peters asked Attorney General Troy King for help Monday night.
Betty Peters believes that if you’re going to get something done, you’ve got to take it to the top.
The district 2 state school board member did just that last night, calling on Alabama ...
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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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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
July 24, 2008
Dothan Eagle
Red meat was on the menu at a Houston County Republican women’s group luncheon Thursday as state school board member Betty Peters slammed
Alabama Education Association head Paul Hubbert, called for the elimination of the Fair Dismissal Law and talked up a Republican candidate for the district 5 ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
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 ...
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