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New York Gifted Kindergarten vs. New York Academic Progress
Don’t take away my chance to succeed. Now this takes the cake in light of the previous post on “Gifted Kindergarten” testing in New York. Here are these New York parents vying for placement for their 4...
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The Family; The Smallest School
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” Michael Levine I have talked about many things regarding children. I have discussed infant brain development,...
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The Family; Ben Bernanke & Freeman Hrabowski
I was reading an article this morning that reinforced what I have been writing about these many months. Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, was asked about the rising financial inequality in the...
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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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Education and the Teacher Cheaters
The New York Times July 16, 2011 editorial states, “A cheating scandal in which scores of teachers and principals in Atlanta’s public schools falsified student test results has thrown the system into...
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Education; Teacher Cheaters in Pennsylvania!
I have a friend who is a teacher. She told me after reading my prior post on the Atlanta Teacher Cheaters, “Teachers shouldn’t be judged so harshly. Too much is expected of them. They have too much on...
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Education: A teacher’s response…
I sent my pal Rob, who is an X-Teacher, an article from the New York Times on character development. His response is poignant for all of its ideas, hard work and sincere effort on the part of the many...
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