I live in Austin, and the sun came up here this morning. I bet it came up where you live too. Isn’t that amazing? The U.S. House passes health care reform, and despite the doomsday predictions of the Rabid Right, life goes on. More importantly, millions of Americans will soon have an opportunity at healthier […]
Over the years, I have been mostly amused – and occasionally annoyed – by the Texas chauvinists who strut around wearing the Lone Star on their shoulders, as if their Texanness has magically bestowed upon them some type of superiority over other, lessfortunate humans as well as the right to be obnoxiousatwill. I, too, am […]
It didn’t take long for the selfanointed education “experts,” many of whom haven’t darkened a classroom door since graduation day, to jump all over the real experts – teachers – for criticizing President Obama’s “blueprint” for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Obama may want to retire the “No Child Left Behind” name, but, […]
There has to be a better way. In fact, there probably are several better ways to write public school curricula than the slapstick routine performed (once again) this week by that preposterously misnamed creature, the State Board of Education. Trying to rewrite history to fit your own narrow, ideological view of the world is not […]
