Posts Tagged ‘ K-12 ’

Zack Kopplin for President

Michele Bachmann has officially announced her decision to run in the 2012 presidential campaign. I’d rather have the Baton Rouge teen, Zack Kopplin, who called her out on her creationism/intelligent design education policies. He seems smarter and a lot more open to facts and logic[ READ MORE ]

Broadband Availability for U.S. Schools

School kids need broadband, too! There’s a nearly infinite universe of information available on the Internet, a bazillion football stadiums’ worth of hard copy knowledge that would never fit into a school library or classroom[ READ MORE ]

Would You Want to Be a Teacher?

Plus, the post-apocalyptic landscape that is public education today isn’t really my style. I prefer my apocalypses (apocalypsi?) nuclear flavored[ READ MORE ]

Too Many Erasures on D.C. Standardized Tests

Have I not stated the utter worthlessness of standardized tests? They’re the faster, stronger, better version of pure evil; the quickest way to inadequately measure how the infinitesimally funded teachers of the American public school system educate their K-12 pupils. Filling in bubbles on a one-size-fits-all metric of knowledge absorption is not only the most [ READ MORE ]

Massive Guilt Expected From High School Drop-Outs

Thinking of being a high school drop-out when you grow up? Please won’t you first consider the role you’ll be playing in taking society down to its knees[ READ MORE ]

When Teachers Get It Right

I’m a cranky bitch, but I’ve always been the sympathetic friend of the underdogs. Because of that, there existed in my cynical little schoolgirl heart a particular love and respect for the (very) few teachers I had in school who could somehow manage to see the person behind my angry, screwed-up friends. [ READ MORE ]

National Geographic’s “Find Your Footprint” Contest

National Geographic and Procter & Gamble have joined forces to hold the "Find Your Footprint"[link] conservation competition for K-12 classrooms[ READ MORE ]

33 Posts On America’s Education System

Here they are, including some Education Reform posts proving I’m not always in disagreement with President Obama[ READ MORE ]

Send…More…Money

I think any country with its priorities so far out of whack (us again) that its schools have been shafted for decades while it remains at the top of the war game, deserves to fall off the 'We’re #1!' pedestal for a while. [ READ MORE ]