With Flexible Instruction Days if bad weather closes a school, kids won’t be lounging around the house all day watching TV or listening to their iPods, and schools will not be losing instructional days that disrupt school calendars and everyone’s personal lives.
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Education Express Should Be Full STEAM Ahead
STEAM students will not just think outside of the box, they will design and build a new one.
Read More »Labor Day – Honoring All Kinds of Work
We never know the story of that person we see performing his or her job, but we should appreciate it nonetheless as a contribution to society.
Read More »UNICOR: Prison Sweatshop or Under-Exploited Tool for Rehabilitation?
Quality vocational training, in-prison work experience, and job opportunities upon release could be so transformative if only there were the vision and leadership to realize the potential.
Read More »Music, Gym, and Art Should Be Mandatory Subjects in K-12 Schools
Schools without art, music, and gym are definitely institutions with glaring holes in their structure. Imagine those schools as if they were the 'Titanic,' and those lost programs would be their iceberg.
Read More »Governor Cuomo’s Cost-Saving Prescription for Safer Streets: Prisoner Education
Providing college-level education to inmates has been shown to dramatically reduce recidivism and the cost to taxpayers of incarceration.
Read More »How ‘Attica University’ Could Reap Rewards for New Yorkers
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has sparked controversy after proposing to fund a college program for state prisoners that has demonstrated success at reducing recidivism.
Read More »‘Commitment to Change’ College Scholarship for Federal Prisoners
The scholarship covers tuition and books for one federal prisoner to take one course at the regionally accredited Adams State University.
Read More »Too Busy Little Bees – The Thing We Are Not Giving Our Kids
We lavish gifts on our children and pay for all these activities, but have lost sight of the one thing we can give our kids that they need most: free time!
Read More »White Youth Corps Against Bigotry
There need to be regiments of young white people coalescing into squadrons of anti-racism reformers to modernize and re-educate white racists.
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