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This comes through my bloglines.
Essentially it is a history teacher in the U.K. who has become fed up with the educational constraints that he feels himself under. His complaints mirror my fears about the future of education in the United States. I find it fascinating, and surprisingly comforting, that this future is not only in [...]
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I find myself in a most unusual circumstance. Peacebloom School, where I am currently observing, was where my TE teacher, Brairthorn, taught for the past 4 years. Miss Silverleaf and Brairthorn both know of each other, know that I am in relatively close contact with both of them, and their teaching styles could not be [...]
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Although this happened a few weeks ago, I believe that it was an important discussion for me as my outlook on school changed somewhat significantly. I had made a post where I referred school to “real life,” meaning what happens to students outside of school after graduation.
The grad student in charge of my TE 407 [...]
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This came through my Bloglines last night, and I thought I would share it with you. It is an columnist from the Dickson Herald, who states that it is a teacher’s job to teach the subject they are hired to teach, and lambastes the teachers who, say, talk about the connections between Hitler and [...]
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Through my bloglines, I received this article. It deals with the dichotomy of opinion between Parents and Teachers over No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In short, a new study states that 80% of parents are confident that schools can reach the standards set by 2013-2014, while only 50% of teachers are confident in [...]
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As some of you may know, a group of Neo-Nazis plan to march in Lansing in two days. Considering that it is Hitler’s birthday today, and the march is in two days, I figured that I would make my comments on their right to march, the right of a counter rally, and my overall [...]
