March 2012
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“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know...”
– James 3:1
Ironically, by wholesome, Christian republicans.
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Mother who stole son's education gets 12 years in... →
Authorities allege she enrolled her son in kindergarten in Norwalk using a babysitter’s address when he should have attended Bridgeport schools, where her last permanent address was.
February 2012
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Tennessee Bill: Penalize teachers, lobbyists for... →
Teachers and lobbyists who default on student loans could lose the right to practice their professions…
House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh, D-Ripley, said the bill sends the wrong message to teachers already facing ample problems. It means, he said, “You would be able to take a teacher out of a classroom because he or she, because of tough times, has become delinquent on a student...
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I WANT TO GO TO THERE. →
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AN OPEN LETTER TO WILLIAM D. FORD FEDERAL DIRECT... →
As with the prior iteration of your site, I would forget my four-digit pin as often as I would forget to conduct a breast self-exam. Thus, I appreciate that your site now allows a password that is not government-issued.
I noticed, however, that your site now offers an array of new password hint questions. NAME OF YOUR FIRST PET is no longer a menu item, so I elected to check the box next...
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lines to use on an English grad student →
so dorky. but I couldn’t resist.
Princess Bride / First Year Composition →
themissourireview:
via McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:
LINES FROM THE PRINCESS BRIDE THAT DOUBLE AS COMMENTS ON FRESHMAN COMPOSITION PAPERS.
BY JENNIFER SIMONSON
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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“At a time like this that’s all you can think to…
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The Worst Things Said On Fox News | The Huffington... →
stfuconservatives:
reallyfoxnews:
The 10 worst Fox News moments, the video version.
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Stephen Colbert inks children's book deal ---> →
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'Don't Say Gay' Bill Flies Out of House... →
Sen. Stacey Campfield’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill made it out of a House subcommittee today, banning discussion of all but “natural human reproduction science” before the ninth grade in public schools.
Before the House education subcommittee acted, chairman Joey Hensley scored bonus points by admonishing all Tennessee parents not to let their children watch “Modern Family” on television because they...
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Santorum Questions Education System; Criticizes... →
For the first 150 years, most presidents home-schooled their children at the White House, he said. “Where did they come up that public education and bigger education bureaucracies was the rule in America? Parents educated their children, because it’s their responsibility to educate their children.”
A spokesman for Mr. Obama’s re-election campaign, Ben LaBolt, said that while the administration...
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“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
– Robert Heinlein
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Einstein (via meiaro)
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Study: Common Standards Will Not Affect Student... →
creative-education:
Yet another study showing no connection between Standards and Student Achievement! How many negative reports, with almost no positive reports, will it take to stop wasting Billions of education dollars on policies that produce little or no positive results?
Oh! I forgot! The policies would work if those lazy teachers would just do their job - which is to increase student...
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Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists? →
jtotheizzoe:
Among the 435 members of the House, for example, there are one physicist, one chemist, one microbiologist, six engineers and nearly two dozen representatives with medical training. The case of doctors and the body politic is telling. Everyone knows roughly what doctors do, and so those with medical backgrounds escape the anti-intellectual charge of irrelevance often thrown at those...
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“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”
– Clarence Darrow (via ihateallyourgods)
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via aquaticuss)
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“Education is really aimed at helping students get to the point where they can...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Education Gap Grows Between Rich and Poor, Studies... →
infoneer-pulse:
Education was historically considered a great equalizer in American society, capable of lifting less advantaged children and improving their chances for success as adults. But a body of recently published scholarship suggests that the achievement gap between rich and poor children is widening, a development that threatens to dilute education’s leveling effects.
It is a...
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“If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well, if you’re a...”
– President Obama on hosting the 2nd Annual White House Science Fair
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“We are so test-obsessed that schools are being closed based on test scores, even...”
– Standardized Testing: The Monster That Ate American Education | Think Tank | Big Think (via infoneer-pulse)
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Reason #2 Why I Hate Alabama Sen. McGill →
Any parent who objects to the Bible Man should consider homeschooling, says Alabama Sen. Shadrack McGill (R) of the state’s Eighth District, whose children have been educated both through homeschooling and in the Jackson County schools.
“We were established to be a godly nation, a Christian nation,” McGill said Wednesday. “We need God in government. We need God in the public school. The more we...
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“I’m voting for Ron Paul.”
– an idiot
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“More and more, Teach for America seems to be an instrument for union busting by...”
– Mark NaisonTeach • Occupy Wall Street
(via adventuresinlearning)
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Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice,... →
The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.
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Reason #1 Why I Hate Alabama Sen. McGill →
“He needs to make enough that he can say no, in regards to temptation. … Teachers need to make the money that they need to make. There needs to be a balance there. If you double what you’re paying education, you know what’s going to happen? I’ve heard the comment many times, ‘Well, the quality of education’s going to go up.’ That’s never proven to...
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“I’m not going to comb over that.”
– White House press secretary Jay Carney, when asked about Donald Trump’s endorsement. (via theatlantic) 