The Troubling Optics Behind the President Learning to Code
Did you hear the news? President Obama wrote his first line of code yesterday to bring attention to Computer Science Week and Code.org’s Marie Antoinette-style …
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The Day My Google Alert Went Crazy
I’ve been online since 1983 and my own web site dates back to the first term of the Clinton presidency. Along the way, I may …
Why I Just Unsubscribed to the Obama Mailing List
In the words of the great political philosopher, Popeye the Sailor Man, “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more.” On the same …
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Obama Holds Bake Sale, Millions of Kids Get Nauseous
From Whitehouse.gov On July 18th, the President hosted an education roundtable with key leaders in both the private and public sectors to discuss ways we can ensure …
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Obama & State School Leaders Want Facebook Unblocked in Classrooms!
Amidst the hoopla surrounding the silly tradition of naming a national “Teacher of the Year,” the President of the United States and Council of Chief …
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Hate to Say It, but “I Told You So!” (part 2)
On December 17, 2008 – one month before Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States, I expressed my fear about …
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Hate to Say, “I Told You So!” (part 1)
On September 3, 2008 I published this article, First We Kill the Teacher Unions, in the Huffington Post. The article reported on some evidence that …
Another Radical Obama Supporter!
Laura Bush Praises Obama, Defends Back-To-School Speech In an interview with CNN, Mrs. Bush, a former school teacher, said, “There’s a place for the president …
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The Parental Veto of Curriculum (2007)
2012 Note: The New Hampshire legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto and passed a law this week allowing the parental veto of curriculum. The following is …
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Proud of My Alma Mater
Imagine if just one President or Dean of a prestigious American university had the courage to speak out against the draconian policies of blaming, shaming, name-calling, ranking, sorting and endless testing that are destroying American public schools.