| A |
Does
Prohibiting Corporal Punishment Prevent Abuse?
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F |
Should
Schools be Clone Factories? |
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"Sacred
Values" in public schools |
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The
Academic Carnival. Ticket to the good life?
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Offer People Fair
Choices. They Don't Have to Like it. |
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Sacrificing
Kids. |
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Why
Accreditation Doesn't Work -- who can
you trust? |
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What
is a Fair Grade? |
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Sacrificing
Public Education to "Pursue Excellence"? |
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The Achievement-Gap-GDP-Gap
Myth: Selling Diet-Pills. |
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Faking
Know-How With Sloganeering |
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Maintaining
Safe Schools::
How? |
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School
Administration: why theory is beside the point. |
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Living
with False Assumptions |
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Same-Sex
Marriage:
another Church-State confusion. |
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Affirming
Diversity:
always a wise choice? |
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All
Schools are Little Wheels: the J. Fred Muggs Effect |
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False
Guarantees: a diploma |
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Scapegoating
to escape Accountability |
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America
2000: a charade?
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American
Democracy: do the schools support it? |
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Family
and School:
an underlying conflict? |
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Can
Science Teach Morality? |
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American
Faith in "Faith" |
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Why
Not Forget About the Public Schools? |
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Visions
of School Improvement: promises unfulfilled
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Are
Humans Rational? What's at Stake?
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School
Failure Mythology
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Are
Kids Crazy? Is their patience pathological? |
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Formal
Education as
Stultification |
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School
Reform:
a juggling act. |
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Armed
Guards
in Public Schools? |
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Academic
Formalities: just making teacher clones?
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Assumptions:
can we avoid making them?
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Is
Your Child Really At Risk? -- lessen
your worries. |
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Abetting
Fraud in School Systems and Universities |
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Is
School Still Educational? |
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Does Schooling Promote Personal
Authenticity? |
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Freedom
and Citizenship: can it be done? |
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Your
Authority is an attitude in the minds of others.
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Are
You A Free Individual? |
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Raising
Test Averages: is this good? |
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Free
Market Incentives to Educational Monopoly |
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Schooling
Entitlement:
an unwanted gift? |
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Avoiding
Controversy:
a survival necessity |
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Power
and Freedom: do most people want them? |
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Schooling:
from the trifling to the trivial |
| B |
Bad
Actors in Organizations: an illusion? |
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From
non-Science to Nonsense |
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Does
Schooling Actually Harm Students? |
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Bashing
Teachers |
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Functional
Analysis in Education? Science? |
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Schooling
Neurosis: power placebos |
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Belief,
Truth and Faith -- differences
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G |
Gaming
the System: a great tradition! |
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Schools
Can Be Just Too Big |
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Believer
vs Atheist ... and other distracting frauds. |
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Getting
Clear on Outcomes |
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School
Productivity vs School Politics |
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What
Benefits Should Schools Promote? For Whom?
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Getting
Down to Facts. How? |
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School
Reform: High Cost, Low Yield |
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Best
Practices? Don't Bet On It! |
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Getting
Tough with the Schools!? |
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School
Reform: Maintaining the Status Quo? |
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Better
Teachers: who needs them?
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God,
Church and Schooling for Democracy |
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School
Reform: promoting class warfare? |
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Blaming
the Bat-boy |
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A Good
Education: substance or symbol? |
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School
Science: facts or dogmas? |
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Good for you? Good
for me? Prudent or Ethical? |
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School
Testing: kick the ball, Charlie Brown! |
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Good
Lies, Wise Evasions
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Blocking
Change:
the real purpose of "school reform?" |
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Grades:
an Illusion? |
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Can
Science Improve Moral Education? |
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Bribes:
should teachers use them?
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Another
Bright Idea? Be Careful! |
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Guessing
At What Elicits Behavior |
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Selling
Off Your Freedom. Your Price? |
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Gun
Fun or Safe Kids? Not both?
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Are
Humans Rational? The Stakes.
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No
More Brownie Points? |
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Become
an Education Guru! |
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Romantics
and Idealists Promoting Service Learning |
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Buffering:
enhancing moral hazard?
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Hard
Facts? None in politics!
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Bullshit:
common currency in public discourse |
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H |
Higher
Academic Education: a road to Servitude? |
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Sharia?
Not to Worry. It's Evangelical. |
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School
Bullying: in memory of Phoebe Prince |
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What
is School For? Honors or Knowledge? |
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SLOGANS:
junkfood, dead weight or poison? |
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What's
So Bad About Bullying? |
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What
Hurts? What Harms? |
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The
Social Promotion Scarecrow |
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Teaching
Values: early lessons in Hypocrisy |
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Curriculum
for the Soul |
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How
to Make a Bundle in the Ed Biz |
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Hunt
for Witches, to improve the schools |
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Speak
English or Else! Keeping the dice loaded. |
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I |
The
Ideal Citizen: a wimp & a liar?
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The
Ideal Citizen: tactful &
retiring -- a reconsideration? |
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| C |
Can
Politics Improve Schools? |
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The
Ideal School: What would it be like? |
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Which
Services for Children in Special Education?
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Pursuing
a Career in a School Bureaucracy |
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Illusions
of Leadership |
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Is
Special Education Fair? |
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Impediments
to Improving Teaching: role v function
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The
Citizen's Faith: inculcated by public education.
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Indulging
Power, Denying Nurture |
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The
Social Promotion Scarecrow |
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Character
vs Situation: a simulation |
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Educational
Innovation: stuck in the mud! |
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Socrates'
Cafe: encounter group or catechism class? |
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Intellectual
Confection or Practicable Theory?
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Interventionism:
helping, interfering or just being useless? |
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K |
Kids
Don't Want To Learn? Pay Them To! |
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Specialist
Educators:
are they really needed? |
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Charter
Schools: no secrets. |
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Does
your school needs a Kluge maker? |
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Staff
Development: Bibbidee, bobbidee, boo! |
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Knowing
What You Don't Know. Is it Possible? |
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Standardization
Stifles Learning Physics |
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Charter
School Scandal? Again? You can bet on it! |
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Knowledge,
Freedom...Are These the Point of Schooling? |
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Stimulus
Cash for Schools: fix what ain't broken? |
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Cheating
& Plagiarism: are they so bad? |
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L |
Must
Our Leaders Be Scoundrels, Too? |
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Strip
Searches,
Reason and Ethics |
| |
Cheating
Well --
if ya just gotta do it! |
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Learning
From Bad Example |
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Student-Centered
Public Schools? |
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Lecture:
an overused pedagogical tool? |
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Student
Debt and Graduation Rates |
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The
Liberal Arts: House of Intellect or of
Questionable Repute? |
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Student
Teaching:
just another hoop to jump through? |
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Are
our Choices "Hard Wired"? |
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Good
Lies, Wise Evasions |
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Stuff
'em with Facts.
Is this Education? |
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Leader's
First Pursuit: Incumbency
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Educational
Choice: why not? |
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Living
in a Cloud of Buzzwords? A possible remedy. |
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Stupid
Opinion or Free Speech? |
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Choosing
a School for your Kids: what kind? |
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M |
Maintaining
Traditions of Practical Wisdom |
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Success
in College: What might influence it? |
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Is a Church
a community? A Faith, a Doctrine? |
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Making
Kids Learn: can it be done? |
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Superstition:
what is it ? Does it matter? |
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Masks:
words that hide agendas
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Class
Control? Why not? |
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Math
Wars:
a tempest in a teapot? |
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Switching
Sides -- and taking others along. |
| |
Are
Students a Teacher's Clients? |
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Mentors
for New Teachers: just another fad? |
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Systems
Don't Do the Work. |
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Cloning
Citizens |
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Mental
Meringue: conjecture as educational theory |
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T |
Take-Over:
usurping others' rights |
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Teacher
Bashing |
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Cognitive
Skills & Economic Development |
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Merging
School Districts: Benefits & Costs |
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Teacher
Desertion? Or, Teacher Assertion? |
| |
College
Graduate Earnings: a college responsibility? |
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Micromanaging
Teachers |
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Teacher
Education Curricula:
worth anything? |
| |
College
Graduation? No guaranteed ticket to success. |
|
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Mind
Control in Education |
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The
First Teacher-in-Space: remembering a
pointless tragedy |
| |
Killing
at Columbine. Why? |
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Motivating
Kids? Not to Worry! |
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Teacher
Leadership: likely, or not? |
| |
Common
Curriculum Standards - a long chase |
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Teacher
Overload: too many broths ruin the cook
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Computers:
magic wands? |
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"Moral
Hazards" in Schooling |
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Teacher
Quality: a distractor?
|
| |
Must
Conflict Be a Negative Process? |
|
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Multicultural
Ed: enlightenment or degradation? |
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| |
What
is "Consensus about Schooling"?
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Multicultural
Ed: solving problems of immigration? |
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| |
Consensus
is
Like Orgasm |
|
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Multiculturally
Sensitive, or just making excuses? |
|
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Teacher
Talk: does more of it help? |
| |
No
Consensus, No Authority |
|
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Multiculturalism
in America and Europe |
|
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The
Teacher Tenure Bogeyman |
| |
Control
in the School: illusions and realities |
|
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Mutually
Cost-Enhancing Objectives,
MCEO's |
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Teacher
Training:
what you don't learn |
| |
Is
there Corruption in American Education? |
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N |
Name-Dropping
is Not Enough -- what do you know? |
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A Good Teacher
Supervisor |
| |
Cosmetic
Grammar:
"class" through speech change |
|
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The
National Dishonor Society |
|
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Teaching
School:
soon extinct? |
| |
Do
Schools Really Need to Cost So Much? |
|
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National
Standards:
the ends of different rainbows |
|
|
Teaching
Values
? Or Training Parrots? |
| |
Are
School Specialists Cost Effective? |
|
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Wishful
Thinking: National Standards |
|
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Looking
for a Teaching Job? Think hard about it! |
| |
Counterfeits,
Fakes: how are they possible? |
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Technician
or Magician: can you tell? |
| |
Are
Educators Trained to Think Critically? |
|
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NCLB:
throw the baby out with the bath! |
|
|
Will
Technology Make Schooling More Efficient? |
| |
Critical
Thinking:
weapon or tool for self-development? |
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| |
What's
Culture? Bias and Discrimination. |
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|
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Why
are Public Schools Test Crazy? |
| D |
The
Dangers of Diplomas |
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Education
That "Meets Their Needs." |
|
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Testing
Fraud?!!! Is It Possible?!!! |
| |
Deadening
the Mind. Weakening the Will. |
|
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Neurosis
Schooling for Social Control
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Thank
your Politician |
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Dealing
with Controversy: dodging the bullets ... |
|
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New
Teacher Troubles |
|
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Theory:
can it be applied? How? |
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Non-Violence:
Gandhi's goal?
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Dealing
with Cultural Difference |
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O |
Opposition
to Charter Schools |
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Thinking
Like
a Computer |
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Misdirected
Dedication |
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P |
Sacrifices
to Parental Ambition and Pride |
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TIMSS:
competing for what? |
| |
Dreams,
Luck and Too Many Cooks: American higher education |
|
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Will
Parental Involvement Help Improve Schools? |
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Tolerate
Everything, Stand for Nothing |
| |
Education
for a Democratic Society: where does this
happen? |
|
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Performative
Recognition: creating facts and community |
|
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Top
School Leadership:
fooled or fools? |
| |
The
Democratic Process: an illusion? |
|
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Mistyping
People: placement test error and worse |
|
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Is
Getting Tough with Public Schools the Answer?
|
| |
Ought
Schools Be Run Democratically? |
|
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How
to Plan a Conference (Oh, the Horror!) |
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|
| |
Destroying
Middle
Class Education |
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| |
Destroying
Schools
to Improve Them |
|
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Pluralistic
Citizens: can schools educate these? |
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Tracking
in Schools: myth & rhetoric |
| |
High
School Diploma or Doomed to Poverty : is that
the only choice? |
|
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Policy
Reversals: the bane of "true believers" |
|
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Tracking
vs Differentiated Instruction |
| |
What
Does a Diploma Mean? |
|
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We're
All Politicians, sometimes. |
|
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Can
Your Trust Yourself? Searching for Certainty
|
| |
Dishonor
Awards |
|
|
Politics
vs Efficiency: the realities of American public
schools |
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| |
Disregarding
Disagreement:
rituals of misdirection |
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| |
Celebrate
Diversity! How do we do that? |
|
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Poor
Teaching. What Is It Exactly? |
|
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Trust:
disease
or drug? |
| E |
Earthling
Education:
how strange! |
|
|
Practical
Statistics
are Local |
|
|
What
is Truth? |
| |
The
Economic Dynamics of Instruction |
|
|
Preaching
Against Violence |
|
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Is
Education Just For Trivial Pursuit? |
| |
Can
Education be a Science? |
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U |
Are
Universities productive? |
| |
Perplexing
Educational Decisions |
|
|
Productive
Schools? Politics comes first! |
|
|
Uniforms,
More Hocus-Pocus |
| |
Educational
Faith? Or Muddled Dogma? |
|
|
Public
Education is Political |
|
|
Universal
Entitlement Suppresses Quality |
| |
...But
an Educator has Just One Career |
|
|
Politics
and School Reform |
|
|
Using
Philosophy to Inform Practice |
| |
Measuring
Educational Outcomes? |
|
|
Productive
Schools? Who Will Judge? |
|
V |
Teaching
Values: does anyone learn very much? |
| |
Education
is a Battlefield |
|
|
Prosecuting
Educational Fraud |
|
|
Violence
in Philadelphia Public Schools: Old News? |
| |
Education
without Indoctrination: is it possible? |
|
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"Protection":
Prevention,
Extortion, Compensation? |
|
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Violence,
even in school, is not necessarily wrong. |
| |
Educational
Choice? Why Not? |
|
|
Public
Opinion is like a Public Bathroom |
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| |
Educational
NewSpeak -- War is Peace |
|
|
Public
School, Religious School. Does it Matter? |
|
|
Violence
in
Philly Schools! A tradition? |
| |
Educational
Policy Reform -- wishes or delusions? |
|
|
What
Can Public Schools Teach? |
|
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The
Coming School Voucher Disaster |
| |
Educational
Reform:
cycles of failure |
|
|
GoodSpin:
the basic rules for public school hype |
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Warm
Hearts
and Gentle People Promote Violence |
| |
If
Educators were Rocket Scientists... |
|
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Public
Schools Real Mission: Common Faith |
|
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What
Can Be Learned? |
| |
Making
Effective Teachers |
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R |
Racial
or Gender Achievement Gaps |
|
|
What
Can Schools Do For Our Children? |
| |
Pathologies
of Enthusiasm: cheerleading is not enough!
|
|
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Reading
and Language Instruction: science...? |
|
|
What
Can You Believe? Whom can you trust? |
| |
Escaping
Accountability: selecting the "right" scapegoat. |
|
|
Here's a chance to Reform
a School! |
|
|
What
Do You Know
That Has Never Entered Your Mind? |
| |
Cultural
or Ethnic Difference: which is more easily
tolerated? |
|
|
Blocking
School Reform: "scientific" metaphors |
|
|
What
does That Word "Really"Mean? |
| |
Everyone
a College Graduate? |
|
|
Is
Reform Really Needed At Your School? |
|
|
What
Works in Schooling: the "Newfanglers" versus the
"Oldfashioned." |
| |
Evidence
for Best Practices? |
|
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|
|
Why
Are Some Schools Bad? |
| |
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|
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Why is it Hard
to Learn? |
| |
Talking
About Evil. (Are some kids just evil?) |
|
|
Reform
Benefits: who gets them? |
|
|
Why
Not Forget About the Public Schools? |
| |
Can
Excellence in Education be Achieved? |
|
|
Reforming
the Schools: who is willing to sacrifice for it? |
|
|
Wishes,
Visions,
...Delusions |
| |
Should
there be Experts in Education? |
|
|
"Reform"
is NOT Reform |
|
|
A
World Without Unpleasantness |
| |
"Expert
Advice" You Can Do Without |
|
|
Religion
in the Public Schools: is Science the answer? |
|
|
Who
Can We Trust to Raise Our Children? |
| |
Extend
the School Day? |
|
|
Usurping
the Rights of Others |
|
|
Will
That Dog Bite? Will That Applicant Be an Effective Teacher?
|
| |
Extra-Terrestrials
to Control Educational System |
|
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Cheating?
By Whose Rules? |
|
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Is
American Education based on Wishful Thinking?
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