Please ponder the possibility that not all possessions are tangible. We might have the best grade, the perceived better degree, more Facebook friends or Twitter followers, greater fame or fortune. Even an abundance of good favor can be acquired, and viewed as a commodity. Each has worth [...]
Photograph; Teachers need to be careful about which students they steer toward vocational school. AP Photo/Brendan Hoffman By Angela Romans | Originally Published at Quartz. December 9, 2013 My brother, a businessman who went to Brown and MIT, and I have a running dinnertime argument. It goes [...]
By Teresa Watanabe | Originally Published at The Los Angeles Times. December 9, 2013 District officials say having to annually verify students' family income to qualify for extra state dollars costs time and money. Major California school districts fear they will be shortchanged millions of dollars [...]
You may have heard the news; scores are not sliding, the scales are. Cheating is competing. Schools that are failing are sailing and parents? Well, they are but pawns in Superintendent John White's game. And what does Superintendent John White say? "There wasn't any intent to cover [...]
KJ Dell’Antonia By Tamika Thompson | Originally Published at The New York Times. December 6, 2013 Recently, my 27-month-old daughter, Morgan, asked this: “Mommy, can you hand me the black one?” Sitting with her on the living-room rug amid a mess of plastic building bricks, I realized [...]
Michelle Rhee (Credit: AP/Jeff Chiu) By Jeff Bryant | Originally Published at Salon. December 6, 2013 Rhee, Nicholas Kristof and Arne Duncan exaggerate test results again to advance an ugly anti-public school agenda When President George W. Bush asked the American people, back in 2000, “Is [...]
[Image via YouTube] By Decca Aitkenhead | The Raw Story Originally Published at The Guardian. December 6, 2013 Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to ‘keep churning out papers’ Peter Higgs, the British physicist who gave his name to the [...]
In the United States we are raised to appreciate the accomplishments of inventors and thinkers—creative people whose ideas have transformed our world. We celebrate the famously imaginative, the greatest artists and innovators from Van Gogh to Steve Jobs. Viewing the world creatively is supposed to be [...]
By Paul L. Thomas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. December 5, 2013 While film critics have offered mostly negative reviews of This Is 40, I have watched all and then parts of the film multiple times during its run on cable TV because I [...]
