by David Safier This is a textbook case of how ALEC, corporations and Republican legislatures work together. For-profit colleges have been scamming students and taxpayers for years. Students are often left with huge loans to pay off after receiving near-worthless education, while the colleges get 90% of their revenues from federal student grants and loans. … Read more
by David Safier Nancy Young Wright at Voices for Education sent this notification to me, and I'm passing it along to teachers who might want to use it in their classrooms: "Constitution Day 2011 – Powers of the President." The two programs may be viewed live via the internet and videoconference. Best of all, the … Read more
by David Safier Let's see, how many bad messages can we give to young girls? That being "pretty" is enough? That school doesn't matter? That homework is for boys? There they are, all on one J.C Penney's t-shirt, for girls aged 7 to 16. "I'm too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to … Read more
by David Safier No Child Left Behind requires that ELL teachers be fluent in English. Sounds reasonable. Arizona Dept of Ed took that a giant step further, until the Feds stopped it from trying to make decisions for the districts. The problem, according to the federal attorneys, is how all that was monitored by state … Read more
by David Safier You may have seen this morning's article in the Star about Unschooling, a variation of home schooling. The only real difference is in emphasis. The idea of home schooling is that the kids go through a reasonably standard curriculum at home, not at school. Unschooling is a free form home schooling where … Read more