How should Americans live in order to attain a reasonable level of comfort and security? The formula, seemingly forgotten long ago, is simple. Robert Rob spells it out in his Politico article, “Americans Lose Gift for Practical Living”: Regardless of how bad a school you attend, pay attention and do what your teachers say to … Continue reading You can lead a horse to water but …
I was just reading comments on another blog, and the editor in me got pinged — again. (Yes, it’s a curse. I retired, but my brain didn’t.) This time it was the spelling “infistructure” used in an otherwise well-written paragraph that also included words such as “stipulation” and “verification.” Not likely to have been a … Continue reading Education is infrastructure, too
I just came across this little editorial in the Washington Post that touts school vouchers and worries that President-elect Obama might eliminate them. I’m a generation past worrying about vouchers and my son’s education, but I decided way back then that I didn’t like them. WaPo seems to be working off the premise that the … Continue reading School vouchers: I still don’t understand
The Denver Public School system does a lot of things that make me wonder about the intelligence of the people in charge. This, in turn, makes me worry about what’s happening to the education of our kids. Case in point: A recent DPS decision to start schools late on five days this year so that … Continue reading United they stand and to hell with the kids
How many of you ever use the calendars in blog sidebars? Do you look at them just to see what day it is? Do you ever use them to pull up the posts from such-and-such a date? Or just look to see how long ago it’s been since the last post? I keep debating whether … Continue reading You can observe a lot just by watching – 2
This evening PBS aired “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.” I sat riveted for the entire two hours. Fascinating looks at the people and testimony in the Kitzmiller vs. Dover case in Pennsylvania a few years ago, where the judge had to decide whether an effort to inject Intelligent Design (ID) into the school’s science curriculum was … Continue reading PBS scores with ‘Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial’
