For scores, overconfidence has proven to bring us down. What we characterize as confidence might more accurately be a reflection of the stories we tell ourselves. We exaggerate our expectations of consistency. We presume or believe that life is predictable. With little evidence for causality, we create [...]
To Download the Bill; Strengthening America's School Act United States Government. June 4, 2013 | Source; ACSD; Capitol Connection. Originally Published on June 11, 2013 Standards and Assessment Accountability and School Improvement Educator Support and Evaluation Whole Child Education Harkin Introduces NCLB Overhaul Senate Education Committee [...]
© copyright 2013 Betsy L. Angert BeThink Look to the left. Look to the "right." In respect to education each side is willing to talk about sensitive subjects. Granted the two sides differ in respect to the specifics and the solutions. Nevertheless, either or each will dive [...]
By Claire Needell Hollander Originally Published atThe New York Times. June 8, 2013 “IT’S sad,” the kid at the far table told me, “but it’s my favorite poem we worked on.” He was talking about “The Weary Blues,” by Langston Hughes, and although his emotional language was [...]
By Linda Shaw. Originally Published at The Seattle Times on Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 7:32 PM Five years into the second phase of its mission to overhaul America’s public schools, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is moving to work more closely with teachers, generating interest [...]
Photograph; Mike Burley / The Topeka Capital-Journal By Roy Wenzl | Originally Published at Witchita Eagle. June 8, 2013, at 5:27 p.m. Updated Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, at 2:53 p.m. | | The Luke Gannon v. State of Kansas Decision The Rev. Jeff Gannon is not a [...]
While the Press may shape the conversation heard on most city streets, and surely the media molds the minds of the elite who never dare venture out into the neighborhoods. Behind the sound barriers society erects, real people speak. Occasionally, their words are placed in print. But [...]
© copyright 2013 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Chris Christie, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, Pennsylvania State Commission Chairman, Pedro Ramos, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and President Obama, by now you have likely seen or heard the news. Nine-year old Asean [...]
In 2013 the issue of poverty is pronounced. It is the cause of great debate and much conflict. However, the conflict is mostly in interest, self-interest. The one interest that receives far less if any attention at all is poverty and the extent of poverty. How to [...]
