Bill Heller, a public school teacher, has written a pretty good open letter to President Obama regarding education, highlighting the successes of his own school as well as problems that federal involvement has caused for public education through the passage of No Child Left Behind. (All block quotes are from the letter, but there is [...]
The Thirst for Freedom posted a nice entry regarding my post about researching homeschooling which received an interesting comment from Casper about homeschoolers and testing. With the accountability craze in the public schools right now, it is unlikely this is a concern that is going to go away any time soon and with the [...]
According to US Census Data (excel sheet, Table 11), Nebraska ranks 48th in the nation in per pupil spending for education, spending just $3,080 per student, well below the national average. Total spending, however, places us at 24th with $8282 spent per pupil. The difference is made up predominantly by local sources demonstrating [...]
Position: Homeschools should not be forced to adopt state standards or submit to state testing.
Objection: Raised by “reality check” in the comment section of the Lincoln Journal Star blog.
” If parents are properly homeschooling their children, then a test should not be a problem. “
This argument is appealing on the surface. [...]
A survey of leaders in the business world paints a dire picture for the future of the American workforce.
Nearly three-quarters of survey participants (70 percent) cite deficiencies among incoming high school graduates in “applied” skills, such as professionalism and work ethic, defined as “demonstrating personal accountability, effective work habits, e.g. punctuality, working productively with others, [...]
Suicide is a horrific and traumatic event for everyone connected to it. The victims most likely suffer months or even years of emotional anguish, perhaps in silence and perhaps not taken seriously by those closest to them. Family members are thrown into a desperate world of blame, guilt, regret and simply not understanding [...]
Back in the early 90’s, I remember sitting in a computer science class looking at the sidebar in my textbook. It discussed an interesting computer program that could “read” the human mind. After some initial training of human and programming of machine, the technology enabled the disabled person to “type” a simple letter [...]
We have had national standards in academic subject areas for a long time. I knew the national standards for foreign language back when I was in college over ten years ago, and became familiar with the others while teaching in Texas. We are on our way to a national test, reportedly to minimize [...]
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