Tuesday, April 15, 2008

From Deadline to Lifeline

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April 15 is a date of treble significance to me: The anniversary of the Titanic disaster, Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball, and ...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Same Old Story.

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Teacher tells student to "sit down and behave herself." Student violently attacks teacher as other students cheer, record incident...
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Gee, I wonder why.

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From the April 4 New York Times: About a third of the nation’s eighth-grade students, and roughly a quarter of its high school seniors, are...
Monday, April 7, 2008

The Great Failure

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"The persistent weakness of American liberalism is its fixation with rights and procedures at any cost to efficiency and common sense....
Friday, March 28, 2008

Toxic Truths: A Closer Look

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As a follow-up to my previous post, Toxic Truths (which you might want to read first; this is a very long post), I'd like to examine ea...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Toxic Truths

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I know that a good deal of my writing here, particularly the last two entries, revolves around kids; their behavior, their approach to schoo...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Incapacity, Part Deux

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I had another row today with a student in the SAVE room; not an unpleasant one, necessarily, but an exasperating one nonetheless. This one w...
Saturday, March 8, 2008

Incapacity

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One of the reasons why, at least in theory, children have lesser rights and obligations than adults is that they lack the capacity to apprec...
Monday, March 3, 2008

Carlin Nails It...Again.

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This weekend one of my all-time favorite performers, comedian George Carlin, did his umpteenth HBO special, entitled It's Bad For Ya. W...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Is Our Children Learning?

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This morning I found a very interesting blog on the New York Times website, entitled "Is Our Children Learning?* Maybe Not." [The...
Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Dumb Down Or Else

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Last week, Erin Einhorn wrote this article in the Daily News about a New York City principal who essentially ordered his teachers to "...