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Eager to Learn or Not – Part 9/10
During the 30 years that I taught English, reading and journalism in the public schools, I worked with thousands of students from every ethnic and socioeconomic group. My family, although of...
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Blind Obedience – Part 3/4
America’s public schools are not failing. In 2010, of about 42 million students attending the public schools (K – 12), white–non Hispanic (23.2 million) and Asian (1.9 million) met the goals of the...
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Civil Disobedience and No Child Left Behind – Part 1/9
This post supports “civil disobedience” among teachers when the situation warrants it, which is why I feel it may be right for teachers to help students cheat on standardized tests that are mandated by...
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Civil Disobedience and No Child Left Behind – Part 2/9
Mr. Morally Correct’s assumption that the unionized public school systems in America are corrupt and educators that cash their monthly checks are failing their contractual obligations comes from a...
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Civil Disobedience and No Child Left Behind – Part 7/9
To understand one of the most difficult challenges American public school teachers face, it is time to examine the Hispanic/Latino culture, one of largest student subgroups in America In fact,...
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Civil Disobedience and No Child Left Behind – Part 9/9
In the early 20th century, the conservative temperance movement popularized the belief that alcohol was the major cause of most personal and social problems and prohibition was seen as the solution to...
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Blind, Deaf, and Dumber to the facts and doomed to fail — Part 3/4
To understand the lack of motivation among most Hispanic/Latino and many African-American students, all one need do is be aware of a few facts, which I have written about in several posts. In Needs...
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America’s Lost Work Ethic and the Future Fate of the United States – Part 3/5
DailyKos.com says, “American’s won’t work 12 hour days , $5 an hour for seven days a week.” However, in 1973 after graduating from college on the GI Bill (working nights and weekends), my first job was...
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America’s Lost Work Ethic and the Future Fate of the United States – Part 5/5
In China, those that work harder and do a better job, regardless of self-esteem or happiness, tend to prosper. in fact, Asian-Americans have the lowest self esteem in the United States. Gallup studied...
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Are we a Nation Eating and Drinking its Way to Idiocy – Part 2/2
To understand what too much sugar and not enough sleep might mean for a student’s ability to learn, I turned to the ehow.com: “According to a study published in the Food Nutrition Bulletin, children...
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