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Education; Race to NOwhere – NOWhere; Destroying Creativity in Children
“I am afraid that our children are going to sue us for stealing their childhoods!” A parent “I would spend 6 hours a night doing my homework.” A student “In America if you don’t earn a lot of money,...
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Education; Vertical Thinking – Lateral Thinking
“You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.” Edward DeBono In the last post “Race to NOwhere – NOWhere” our students are falling asleep in their one dimensional...
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Education; The Lost Art of Engaging Students in Public Education and...
“No one is thinking if everyone is thinking alike.” General George S. Patten, Jr. There is a high school in a poor section of the Bronx called the Theater Arts Production Company School. Report card...
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Education; Critical Thinking vs Rote Memory in American Education
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." Albert Einstein We have an American educational system that languishes under the premise that if a student repeats something many times he will learn it....
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Education; Teacher as Facilitator, Students as Collaborators
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki Creativity in children begins at birth. Children come to us innocent, trusting, and ready...
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Education; The Disenthrallment of the Quiet Past
I was reading an article on manufacturing in America in the Wall Street Journal by Matt Ridley. It discussed the idea of “Disenthrallment”. In Abraham Lincoln’s 1862 message to Congress he speaks of...
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Nation Builders; In Defense of Teachers
“In South Korea, teachers are known as nation builders. I think it’s time we treated our teachers with the same level of respect right here in the United States of America” President Barack Obama The...
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Education Nation: What Teachers Want – Part 1, Salaries
I watched the September 25th, Sunday NBC program called “Education Nation” hosted by Brian Williams. It was a Teacher Town Hall Meeting filled with teachers talking about teaching and the state of...
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Education Nation: Teachers Want a Voice as Decision Makers
There is a school in Washington State where the teachers decided what they wanted education to be like for their 650 kindergarten through 6th grade students. The staff collaborated as a group on what...
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Education; Teachers want Family Involvement with Student Behavior
Many teachers across the country complain about the loss of learning in public school classrooms due to undisciplined children who come from dysfunctional homes. Their parents are children who have...
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