On Monday, November 23, 2009, I thought about November 22, 1963. The entire Sunday, the date never entered my mind. This is the first time in 45 years that I haven’t thought about the Kennedy assassination on November 22. I have noted with each passing year, however, the media coverage shrinking. I am a little [...]
Tags: barack obama, nobel peace prize, teacher
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I just retired – as of this school year – from approximately 31 years of teaching. I haven’t retired from 25+ years of parenting. Being a parent and a teacher causes a strange kind of schizophrenia including multiple personality (dis)order (for those of you who are running or 35 watts, this is hyperbole). Think like [...]
Tags: learning theories, teacher, teaching
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In part 1, we argued that Banned Book Week was fundamentally misleading. We defined “banned” and questioned whether banning was actually a real problem in the United States. We questioned the lumping of “banned” with “challenged” books as a challenge was not fundamentally in itself a problem. We stipulated that “banning” in America, if it [...]
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I was standing outside of a classroom where I used to be an educator of sorts waiting to help a teacher administer an important beginning-of-the-year reading test. A teacher across the hall looking rather pale said to me that something terrible was happening. She lead me to her computer. There was a one line news [...]
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