Thursday, September 15, 2011

Pat Tillman, truth, stories, and why our education system is the way it is

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About the last thing I am likely to do in this space is to write about a movie. But, as it happened, I chanced upon a movie on TV in which...
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Monday, September 5, 2011

Parenting 101: every now and then you do something right

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I have been in the UK for the last couple of weeks, now back in New York. While I was on the train going to Brighton, my daughter called wit...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

A message to Bachman, Duncan, and every other politician who thinks he knows how to fix education

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Michelle Bachmann, who is beginning to look to be someone who those of us who have been scoffing at will have to take more seriously, has...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

A short conversation with a teacher in Florida

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I was playing softball in the old guys league again. The last few days there has been a very good player in his 40s playing as well. He is ...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

NO to subjects and NO to requirements

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I have been spending a great deal of time in Europe lately, where the talk is about what to do about the awful governments that countries li...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Fidel Castro, Greece, Spain; how education can fix an economy

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A friend of mine went to visit Fidel Castro a few years back. (He is not your typical guy and I have no idea how this was arranged.) They go...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

STEM in the U.S. and U.K. We need "Science Idol"

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I am in U.K. at the moment, and today attended a breakfast organized by Donald Taylor, meant to have good conversation with some of the thou...
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