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Repost by request: The Community-Down Syndrome
I coined the phrase, “Community-Down Syndrome,” as I attempted to understand why teachers assigned to our broken and dysfunctional communities are being targeted, humiliated, and driven out of the profession at a greater rate than teachers assigned to more affluent schools in healthy communities. Teachers who agree to work with some of our most damaged…
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Do We Have Self-Directed Educators Who Can Deal With Self-Directed Learners?
Get ready. The management of educational institutions changes from one of conforming students and teachers so the learners are safe and the administration has fewer problems, to management plans that focus on supporting self-directed teachers and creating self-directed learners. Education must evolve to meet the needs of 21st Century learners and America’s future.
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Education Makes the American Dream Possible
The majority of Americans believe in a country where students can go to any public school in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, New York, Texas, Idaho, or… and receive a good interdisciplinary comprehensive education based on facts, content, and sound educational practices. Americans do not believe in education which is cult or religious-based indoctrination. Nor do Americans…
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The Community-Down Syndrome
I coined the phrase, “Community-Down Syndrome,” as I attempted to understand why teachers assigned to our broken and dysfunctional communities are being targeted, humiliated, and driven out of the profession at a greater rate than teachers assigned to more affluent schools in healthy communities. Teachers who agree to work with some of our most damaged…
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The Development Of Our Species.
The information available on networks woven across people, places and time may be so far ahead of our social development as a species that it collapses systems we depend on for survival. We have widespread access to information that is not controlled by any church, government, or political organization. Never before in the history of…
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Failure To Teach The Essential Skills…
Most ‘partial’ and so-called ‘virtual schools’ do not provide the essential foundations in at least ten disciplines that our children must have. Ideally, no state or group can deny American students the right to this information, but it is happening across America. When schools are allowed to weaken or delete the teaching of essential skills,…
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DISGUSTING AND WRONG
The failure of educators, school boards, and teachers associations to preserve comprehensive, interdisciplinary, fact-based education is a national disgrace. Their lack of opposition to moronic attempts to legislate educational cures such as No Child Left Behind, school choice, charter schools, virtual schools, vouchers, and tests in as few as two disciplines that are used to…
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USE TESTS TO PLACE, PUNISH, AND PLACATE
Teachers are being forced to teach to limited, invalid tests meant to measure student, teacher, and school proficiency. If educators truly understand their responsibility to each learner, they know that tests used to place, punish, and placate are worthless. Every teacher is forced to be dishonest when they teach for the test. Teachers are being…
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GIVE OUR EDUCATION TAX DOLLARS TO PIRATES?
The 2008 near destruction of our economic system was brought on by deregulation and the greed of banks and Wall Street. The same evil forces are now privatizing (deregulating) America’s public education system. They are gaining access to the taxes we pay to support our schools. They are driven by profit, not quality education for…
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DEALING WITH THE MINDSETS OF FACT-ADVERSE LEADERS
There are leaders who do not question the misapplication of disconnected assumptions. Their ideologies drive them, not factual information. Understanding that, one can begin to comprehend what has been done to teachers, schools, and education in the name of accountability. No Child Left Behind is a program the Bush administration mandated that was not based…