As guest blogger coming off a Thanksgiving-typtophan stupor, I found myself asking the very question many of my English students have posed over the years. A recent posting on Insidehighered.com told about a curriculum redesign of writing for frst-year students. Scott Warnock of Drexell University says about…
The following is a brief excerpt from an article in the Orlando Sentinel regarding a study of Florida Virtual School. The Florida Virtual School is a good deal for Florida taxpayers. That is the view of Florida Tax Watch, which recently did a study on…
I shudder to think. This notion came to mind as I watched this video, Do Schools Kill Creativity, delivered by Sir Ken Robinson at a TED Conference in Monterey, CA. where he again raises the concern that our educational system is about the business of educating people out…
Sometime ago, I had heard Thomas Friedman suggest that we often have 21st Century students and 20th Century teachers. I felt indicted by this statement and hope that on my better days, that might actually be true. I taught for years in an urban setting,…
