Education

Education reform: How?

by Karoli on June 3, 2010 · 10 comments

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on education reform lately, especially after the Texas School Board Fiasco. Here’s my problem: All of my kids have gotten great educations in the public school system. They think, they read, they write, and they’re good citizens. Are there things I’d change? Yes. But I don’t necessarily see [...]

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I’m not sure what makes me sadder: guns being an issue at Ms. Dancer’s school or an escalation in racial tension there. This has never been characteristic of this school and it shouldn’t be now.

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It’s nearly 1 AM when your almost-16 year old daughter shows you the series of text messages flying around local airspace saying that some unnamed punk has threatened to bring a gun to school to settle some scores. What do you do? If you’re me, you take it damn seriously. So seriously, in fact, that [...]

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