Archive for the ‘General News’ Category

State school board member calls on AG to investigate campaign finance

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 ...

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 ...

Alabama state school board member slams AEA head

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 ...

Educations “Wag the Dog”: Geniuses Lost

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 ...

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