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Why Mrs. Bush is Wrong About No Child Left Behind (bad analogies part 2)

July 30, 2008 – 8:55 pm

In the article she says, “We would never go to a doctor and say, ‘I’m sick, you can’t try to diagnose me … you can’t use any kind of test.” The testing system does treat education system as sickly and makes the students work to diagnosis it. Mrs. Bush explains how the US education system is failing, saying that “poor kids…

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Classroom Discipline, Some Teachers Should Learn Lessons Taught in 1947

July 22, 2007 – 11:24 am

I learned about this study in a child psychology class many years ago, it was a prerequisite for teachers, it is obviously an important study to learn from— yet it seems many teachers are unaware of how they are replicating this experiment in their own classrooms. But more importantly, the schools that teach teachers and the school that those teachers teach at need to support and educate teachers better.

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Changes in Focus for Higher Education

March 17, 2007 – 5:55 pm

and Admissions Sales Representatives also facilitate the student recruitment process through intensive interviewing that includes telemarketing, personal selling, and generating leads through corporate and community outreach. Higher education once meant becoming a better person and increasing your knowledge and understanding of the world, but today it has shifted to preparing its students for work.

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Open-Source is Good for Students (Paris gets it)

February 10, 2007 – 2:02 pm

CNet reports: The portable office will include the office software suite, an Internet browser, an e-mail client, an instant-messaging client, and audio and video player software, according to the Ile-de-France regional council. Once an aqua version is out there will be no compelling reason for vast majority of MS Office users to continue paying for buggy overpriced software.

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