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The Stolen Lantern: September 2013
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Wednesday, September 18, 2013. If Only I’d Known This In Grad School I Wouldn’t Have Had To Read All Those Books. Strategy (16%). Questions in this category test how well you develop a given topic by choosing expressions appropriate to an essay's audience and purpose; judging the effect of adding, revising, or deleting supporting material; and judging the relevance of statements in context. Robert Pirsig wrote about the educational outcome of this approach:. Anothe...
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The Stolen Lantern: May 2013
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Past Is Prologue.To Failure. From the Who Could Have Predicted Department:. This is just an example of something that’s going on all over the country: eviscerating the curriculum to make more room for test prep. Optimists in the crowd will probably say if you’re going to over emphasize something math and reading are good choices, but I would argue that’s just whistling past the graveyard. What this means essentially is that students ment...
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The Stolen Lantern: March 2013
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Friday, March 29, 2013. Greyhound Racing: A Brutal Industry That Traps Dogs And People. For more information about rescued racing greyhounds looking for homes, go here. If you don't know about the plight of racing greyhounds go here. Thursday, March 28, 2013. By Way Of Introduction. Shoaff himself was apparently an author of small repute who died in 1993. I like statements like that. You enter into the writer's thought with an "I got this," and soon you find yo...
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The Stolen Lantern: Spock v McCoy. Coming To A School Near You
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Spock v McCoy. Coming To A School Near You. As you can see, there’s a built in tension between the outcomes desired by business and those demanded for a just and vibrant democracy, much like the uneasy marriage between Capitalism and Democracy itself. We are, of course, both employees and citizens so the competing claims to educational outcomes both have merit, but lately is seems business outcomes. Standards you aren’t for any. Standar...
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The Stolen Lantern: Dogs Have Been Telling Us This For Years, And We're Finally Able To Listen
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Tuesday, October 8, 2013. Dogs Have Been Telling Us This For Years, And We're Finally Able To Listen. There is an interesting bit of research. Coming out of Emory University about dogs and what is really going on inside their heads. Neuroscientist Gregory Berns has been successful in training dogs to tolerate having an M.R.I. and the results are very intriguing, but totally unsurprising to those of us who share our lives with a canine companion. Julian Franklin pus...
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The Stolen Lantern: Of Fish, Ducks And Schools
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Of Fish, Ducks And Schools. The reality is that you don’t have to look very far in America today to see that the relationship between Capitalism and Democracy is, at best, dysfunctional. From home lending practices to food safety requirements market driven values have invaded and replaced democratic ones, so instead of justice for all we get buyer beware as a national motto. So, are they better? We’ve had charter schools since the ...
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The Stolen Lantern: October 2013
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Spock v McCoy. Coming To A School Near You. As you can see, there’s a built in tension between the outcomes desired by business and those demanded for a just and vibrant democracy, much like the uneasy marriage between Capitalism and Democracy itself. We are, of course, both employees and citizens so the competing claims to educational outcomes both have merit, but lately is seems business outcomes. Standards you aren’t for any. Standar...
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The Stolen Lantern: August 2013
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Wednesday, August 28, 2013. Of Fish, Ducks And Schools. The reality is that you don’t have to look very far in America today to see that the relationship between Capitalism and Democracy is, at best, dysfunctional. From home lending practices to food safety requirements market driven values have invaded and replaced democratic ones, so instead of justice for all we get buyer beware as a national motto. So, are they better? We’ve had charter schools since the ...
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The Stolen Lantern: July 2013
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Monday, July 8, 2013. Dr Duncan Misdiagnosis The Patient. I’ve been watching reruns of the television show House. This strikes me as a good metaphor for educational reform. Like Doctor House, our educational reformers prescribe a battery of tests, but unlike Doctor House, these tests aren’t supposed to provide information leading to the cure, they’re supposed to be. The lower their educational. Recently, there was an article that appeared. In the Post Tribune.
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The Stolen Lantern: December 2013
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Peripatetics for the easily distracted. Wednesday, December 4, 2013. Back when the latest group of saviors embarked on their mission to rescue education from itself, one of the things we were told was that injecting more and higher stakes tests into the system (anyone remember tests to determine high school graduation, regardless of the student's final GPA? Teens from Asian nations dominated a global exam given to 15-year-olds, while U.S. students showed little improvement and failed to reach the...Now r...
