Freshly back from open house at the Jr High I was tickled at first by some of the needless nomenclature changes. Studyhall is now called an "academic preparation period" (thankfully referred to by its more obtuse acronym, "APP". Home Economics (Home Ec) is now "Family and Consumer Science" which,...
The big talk in the news over the last few days has been Obama's planned talk with schoolchildren. FOX's new Nazi propagandist Glen Beck called the speech "indoctrination" and warned Americans to "Stand guard... Your republic is under attack." But beyond the obvious divisiveness of statements li...
The Bush administration has more reasons to rail against the New York Times (unfairly, I believe) because they are reporting about a recent independent study that the administration would rathar have us not hear about. The study, coined the Nation's Report Card commissioned by the Bush admini...
