My Handout For Peregrine Books Presentation

Dear Friends, The intent of Vital Lies is to provide a format for local and national discussion. Vital Lies took over 10 years to research and write. It was released in eBook format in 2012 and is available globally. In January, due to intense pressure from friends, the first printing as a paperback was released. Peregrine Book Company carries the paperback locally. Both the paperback…

Educational Leadership – We Lack Basic Principles

Jun 19th, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 2 min read

WHOM DO WE FOLLOW, we educators who are responsible for the precious futures of America’s children, and thus the future of our country? Who speaks for teachers? Who speaks for the children? What are the fundamental responsibilities that guide educators? Do Associations and Unions represent children and education, or just ‘labor’? Does the US Department of Education speak for the profession, or current political ideologies?…

Wisconsin – A Lesson We Must Keep From Happening Everywhere

Jun 13th, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Uncategorized, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 3 min read

I blogged about One Nation and that caught the attention of people who feared that what I wrote was true. They had never seen it put so clearly. The destruction of our basic educational system, mostly in elementary education, will end a cohesive nation and, many think, the American Dream. It is already happening in many states. America, as we know her, cannot be based…

DISTRICT OR CHARTER SCHOOL? – LET’S COMPARE

Jun 2nd, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 2 min read

ALMOST ALL DISTRICT SCHOOLS K-12 – Campus with playing fields, parking, student R&R areas. Bus loading and unloading areas. Library, resource rooms, nurse’s office, counselors offices, classrooms, teachers offices, student and staff rest rooms. Science labs, language labs, physical education gym(s) and PE facilities and playing fields. Teachers meeting/planning areas, central office administration, teacher supervision, and record keeping. Food services. Theater and performing arts center….

The Death of “One Nation”

May 21st, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Uncategorized, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 2 min read

IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT that America is One Nation with a common language, shared American culture and values, and an educational system that made certain children in every state received a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, fact-based education based on specific curriculum for every discipline. IT IS NOT AN ACCIDENT that all students were, until recently, educated in a similar way. It didn’t just happen that students…

America Cannot Survive Without Educational Leaders Who Know Our Past, Present and Future Directions And Get Us On The Same Page.

May 16th, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Uncategorized, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 1 min read

Parents, Educators – all of us who believe in the future of America and a strong public educational system that unites the nation– have not organized around leaders who have the information and knowledge generated by experience that is necessary to counter the destruction of our schools. Teachers are too isolated, some say too independent, to unite around leaders and work for children and the…

Part I: Re-Think Your Role: Are You Shoveling Coal Into The Boiler Of a Sinking Ship?

May 2nd, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Uncategorized, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 1 min read

Our responsibility to provide the education kids need has changed. What worked in the last century may be folly now. With the new tools at our disposal the acquisition of knowledge accelerates in ways we are only beginning to understand. For example: The idea of breaking subjects up into 176 – 42 minute doses is artificial and has no foundation in the principles of effective…

Good Schools Do Not Burn Children’s Bridges Ahead Of Them

Apr 29th, 2012 Charter Schools, Corporate for-profit schools, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Uncategorized, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 1 min read

The “school choice” cry, which has become the basis for those who proffer charter schools, virtual schools and vouchers as an answer to fixing education, has had a devastating effect on those who are working to improve public education. The idea that parents have studied and know the complexities of training and education, and that they can seek programs for their children that equal the…

Message To Obama And The USDOE From Educators And Parents

Apr 24th, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation EdwardBerger 1 min read

We must bypass the hijacked systems which control education and ensure that, with Federal guidelines, states guarantee every student an interdisciplinary comprehensive, fact-based education as the foundation for schooling in the Information and Interactive Age. To build and maintain our nation we must have cohesive principles such as common standards and purpose, not the anarchy of divergent interests taking over our schools to manipulate the…

A Broken Educational System Is National Suicide

Apr 23rd, 2012 Charter Schools, Community Education, Corporate for-profit schools, Education, Education - Change and Development, Educational Leadership, Educational solutions, For profit education, For Profit Schools, National Education Dialogue, On-Line Schools, Private Education, Public Education, teacheer evaluation, teacher evaluation, Virtual Schools, Whole Schools Curriculum EdwardBerger 1 min read

Like it or not, we have entered a new age through technological portals so complex they are beyond our individual ability to comprehend. It is not “maybe someday,” or “sometime in the future,” that we must plan for, it is NOW as we enter the second decade of the Information Age and begin to comprehend the Interactive Age. We are already beyond the point of…

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