education
September 26, 2009
- Until September 24, 2009, I hadn't put on an armband since the spring of 1970 when I was a junior in high school. On April 30, 1970, President Richard Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia, and on May 4 Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder-four students at Kent State-were shot and killed by members of the Ohio National Guard. In their memory and ...
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September 8, 2009
- As the furor goes on over Obama talking to kids in school, we return from Labor Day weekend and say good-bye to another summer (unofficially, of course). A lot has happened over the last week or so, the school speech not being the least significant among them. So what's the big deal?Well, a bunch of Republicans are getting their panties in a bunch over the President speaking to school kids, ...
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September 3, 2009
- Unlike much of America, Philadelphia still hasn’t gone back to school. No early soccer practice. No head-start on the daunting junior-high curriculum. We honor the quaint tradition of waiting until after Labor Day. So my daughters have wrung one last week out of summer. Nevertheless it’s a somber time, the air full of premature briskness and their ennui, which resembles my own ...
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September 2, 2009
- As I stood in line the other day watching a parent shell out money for school supplies, while her child’s thumbs glided over a cell phone faster than I could see, the thought occurred me: if my children where about to begin another school year, would I let them go, or keep them at home and teach them myself. The answer came faster than the gum-chewing tween could send another text-message. ...
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August 31, 2009
- Jenny wants, she tells me as I hand my cash over the register to her, to do research into autism. As she says this she's working one of her three day jobs: this one is as a front-desk person at a resort just west of Sedona, Arizona. Her other jobs include waitressing at an upscale restaurant back in town, and peddling Mary Kay Cosmetics. And when she isn't serving wine and tapas or passing around ...
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August 26, 2009
- Each year at the Advising Workshop for faculty, the Dean of Admission presents facts about our incoming class: their ethnography, academic records, community service and place of origin. We have watched the diversity of the College grow every year; more students speak more than one language, more perform community service. Then the Dean pointed out, this class, the traditionally aged students, ...
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August 10, 2009
- The famous psychiatrist Carl Jung developed the idea of synchronicity: The coincidental occurrence of events that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality. We have termed these events coincidence; recently such an occurrence caught my attention: But first, I must digress.It has been requested of me to write more regarding mental health, and the steps ...
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August 7, 2009
- If you think education is expensive — try ignorance.- Derek C. Bok http://www.bookreporter.com/community/quote/index.asp What a wonderful quote, short concise, yet heavy with meaning. A provocation to thought, particularly in these times of recession when we argue over the value of sinking our tax dollars into education. What does it mean? We westerners forget, for instance, that ...
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August 7, 2009
- I should be writing a blog write now. It is a terribly important blog with an appropriately important sounding title. “ A post modern deconstruction of the educational system.” But I couldn't. You see the Red Sox are playing against the most evil team in the history of mankind, The New York Yankees. As the self-proclaimed spokesman for Generation X I have certain duties to attend to. ...
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July 26, 2009
- Those of you that have been following this blog know my grief over the lingering racism that still exists in our nation. Those that think that racism has ended simply have never had to deal with it. The below article I’d gotten from the “Southern Poverty Law Center”… from their “HateWatch” division. The “HateWatch” is listed in my blogroll. SPLC site is ...
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