We need to get back to teachers teaching instead of teaching to the test. This report is a sign that we are getting there.
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Fifty Years Later: A Reflection on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
As the nation remembers JFK fifty years later, I wonder what he would make of us now?
Read More »50th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination – The Agony and the Legacy
We mourn the passing of a legend. JFK – the rock star president and political comet that soared ever too briefly across the nation's sky.
Read More »Common Core Wars – The Phantom Menace: Parents!
The debacle of Race to the Top, Common Core State Standards, and standardized testing continues to metastasize into an out of control disease, and many parents are becoming aware of the pernicious effects on their children’s school experience.
Read More »No More Ghettos: On The Death Of James A. Emanuel, Poet
Can poets, in the future, say this word more firmly?
Read More »Physician Burnout a Serious Problem
In a country full of aging Boomers, more demand and fewer providers may be leading to a crisis. To avoid burnout, doctors are advised to take time away, to reconnect, and to learn to relax.
Read More »Edward Snowden: Cog in a Machine
Centuries later, it will still be one damn thing after another.
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