Category Archives: Education

We Are The 99 Percent

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Myca

Hey, you busy? Not doing much? You feel like sobbing like a baby? Then read the We Are The 99 Percent tumblr. It’s just a collection of personal stories from people who have worked hard within this cruelly rigged system … … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Economics and the like, Education, Health Care and Related Issues | 117 Comments

I Need Some Help Designing a Technical Writing Assignment

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

So I am finally getting around to prepping my classes for Fall 2011. I wish I’d started sooner–indeed, I’ve been thinking about posting this for quite a while–but such is the nature of things that I am only getting to … Continue reading →

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My Wife is Trying to Raise Money for Her Classroom

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

My wife teaches kindergarten in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, NY, a low-income, high-crime area with lots of needy and otherwise difficult kids. The school where she teaches has been hard enough hit by the budget cuts plaguing the school … Continue reading →

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Rick Perry on Abstinence-Based Sex Education

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Jeff Fecke

In Perry’s defense, there is absolutely no good reason to support abstinence-based sex education, so his inability to come up with one is unsurprising. That said, it says something that he can’t even come up with one of the standard … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Elections and politics, Feminism, sexism, etc, Sex | 1 Comment

Fair is fair: Kindergarten and the American Dream

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Grace Annam

Kindergarten showcases many basic principles which most of us learn there or at our parents’ knees:  take turns, share the toys, fair is fair, and so on.  Later on, “fair is fair” gets refined in many ways, one of which … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Disabled Rights & Issues, Education, Elections and politics, Social Security, Uncategorized | 198 Comments

Why I Haven’t Been Blogging Much

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

If you look to the right in the picture below, you can see me holding a sign that says, “Restore full-time faculty lines NOW!” This picture was taken by a NYSUT photographer at a rally we held last week to … Continue reading →

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Finding Myself in the Thick of It

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

I have been away from serious blogging for a while now, and I’ve been missing it, but my life has been turbulent lately and there just hasn’t been the time to reflect that I need in order to write. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Education | 15 Comments

Why Sentence Diagramming Does Not Make You Superior, An Argument In Support of Those Kids Today

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Mandolin

I have been ranting today on the subject of grammar. It’s all Ann Leckie’s fault. Or possibly Jacqueline Howett’s. For those of you who have not followed the blog explosion, self-published author Jacqueline Howett has been busy imploding in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Education | 34 Comments

Cheating for “Superman”

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Jeff Fecke

Few figures loom larger in the effort to corporatize education than former District of Columbia Schoosl Chancellor Michelle Rhee. Relentlessly self-promoting, Rhee has pushed a simple formula for education reform: just break the teachers’ unions, force out “bad” teachers (as measured … Continue reading →

Posted in Education | 16 Comments

The Republican Party in Wisconsin Appears to be Using the Freedom of Information Act to Intimidate Professor William Cronon, a Historian at the University of Wisconsin

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Richard Jeffrey Newman

You really need to read the blog posts–there are several; start here–that Professor William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin has written on his blog, Scholar as Citizen, about what has happened since he published a post called Who’s Really … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Elections and politics, Free speech, censorship, copyright law, etc., Organizations, Media, Online Stuff | 1 Comment