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In a Clevelanad suburb President Obama has astounded the audience while pitching for his health plan: Your employer, it’s estimated, would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent which means they could give you a raise. I wonder what would have happened had his predecessor made the same claim. How would the press [...]

In a recent article in the Scientific American Linda Baker wrote Over the past 20 years educators have fought over the best way to teach numbers to kids. Advocates of traditional math tout the practice of algorithms and teacher-centered learning, whereas reform-math proponents focus on underlying concepts and student inquiry. In the face of continued [...]

The news are sometimes overwhelming. The latest I read came from National Geographic Daily News. A new research by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science, suggests “that human evolution may have a big influence on whether you’re liberal or conservative—not to mention how smart you are, whether [...]

A story in foxnews.com under the caption “Detroit School Leader Sends Wrong Message, Some Parents Say” tells of the president of the city’s school board who shockingly confessed that he can’t pen a coherent sentence. Mathis, 56, of Detroit, has had difficulties with language as early as fourth grade, when he was placed in special [...]

In the Fall 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given $45 million to six school districts, including Denver, for a two-year study of teaching. I’ll quote a response to this news from James D. Starkey, a retired teacher. The purpose of the study is a quest to find out the best teaching practices. [...]