Computer Dictionaries in Austr...

Jan 15, 2013 by

Computer Dictionaries in Australia, China, and Asia

— a Wake up Call for American Parents. . . . By Robert Oliphant, Thousand Oaks, CA… Phone: 805.370.9252. . . ....

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Middle Schoolers, Avuncular Tu...

Oct 24, 2012 by

Middle Schoolers, Avuncular Tutors, and the International Graduate Record Exam

 — A Patriotic Option for Retired American Wanderers by Robert Oliphant – [Editor’s Note: The appended short article has been...

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Why American Middle Schoolers ...

Oct 5, 2012 by

Why American Middle Schoolers Should Take the International Graduate Record Exam Seriously Now, Not Ten Years Later

by Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I’ve discovered that lots of middle school students, not just their parents, are...

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Reader-Friendly Testing and th...

Jun 19, 2012 by

Reader-Friendly Testing and the Economist: A Practical Option for Intelligent Children and Thrifty Parents

By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I feel it’s time for Americans to wake up and smell the gunpowder that Asian nations...

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Playground Jungles versus Youn...

May 11, 2012 by

Playground Jungles versus Young Tutors — A Option for Worried Parents and Ambitious Students

By Robert Oliphant – Dear Young Friend. . . . By way of openers I’m assuming that you’re familiar with the climate of fear that...

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From Personal Song to Public S...

Feb 4, 2012 by

From Personal Song to Public Speaking Confidence — Some State-of-the-Art Guidance for Middle Schoolers and Older

By Robert Oliphant  – My name is Bob and I believe in following the public, not leading it. This means that the favorable...

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Worldwide Spoken American Engl...

Jan 14, 2012 by

Worldwide Spoken American English for Middle Schoolers — A Four-Step Wake Up Call

By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I’m a proper-name junkie, which means I’m upset by the number of exotically foreign...

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Worldwide American Spoken Engl...

Jan 9, 2012 by

Worldwide American Spoken English for Middle Schoolers — A Four Step Program

By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I’m a proper name junkie who likes to check out what’s on the doors of our professional...

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California Dreaming and Bureau...

Nov 17, 2011 by

California Dreaming and Bureaucratic Scheming — A Working Journalist’s Backup Kit from EducationViews.org. . . .

Robert Oliphant (805) 370-9252. . . . CSUN emeritus, Stanford PhD, WWII vet (air corps). DEAR WORKING JOURNALIST. . . . Via the...

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American Employability, the Gr...

Nov 14, 2011 by

American Employability, the Graduate Record Exam, and Spoken Professional American Dictionary English — A Practical Option for Today’s Middle Schoolers

By Robert Oliphant My name is Bob and I’ve begun to worry about American employability, not just American education. Nor am I alone,...

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Ideas, Politics, and Factualis...

Nov 1, 2011 by

Ideas, Politics, and Factualists — New-Wave Common Ground for Conservatives and Liberals

By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I am a recovering ideologue. This is to say I was saturated with the History of Ideas...

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Five Linguistic Fallacies Wort...

Oct 27, 2011 by

Five Linguistic Fallacies Worth Discussing by American High Schoolers and Their Parents

By Robert Oliphant My name is Bob and I’ve been worrying about how physical some of our political disagreements have been getting...

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Educational Testing versus Edu...

Oct 23, 2011 by

Educational Testing versus Educational Scamming — A Thorstein Veblen Perspective

By Robert Oliphant – With mainstream sources like the LA Times (7/24/2011) on their side, Americans can now feel comfortable in...

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Ideas, Facts, and Startup Prop...

Oct 17, 2011 by

Ideas, Facts, and Startup Proposals — A New Format for Thought Experiments

By Robert Oliphant Like Alice’s flamingos, ideas often give us trouble, sometimes dramatically so, as in Bertrand Russell’s...

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Recommended Reading and the Na...

Sep 27, 2011 by

Recommended Reading and the National Association of Scholars

By Robert Oliphant – Recommended reading, very much like physical exercise, has always been fair game for American...

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How Americans Can Reach Agreem...

Sep 13, 2011 by

How Americans Can Reach Agreement on the Pledge of Allegiance Issue

by Robert Oliphant – During anxious times like these, America’s national monuments surely call for reverence, not revision....

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Educational Testing versus Edu...

Aug 29, 2011 by

Educational Testing versus Educational Scamming — A Thorstein Veblen Perspective

By Robert Oliphant With mainstream sources like the LA Times (7/24/2011) on their side, Americans can now feel comfortable in...

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Why Americans Facing the Crash...

Aug 16, 2011 by

Why Americans Facing the Crash of 2011 Need a Tell-the-Truth Fix Right Away

By Robert Oliphant Call it a Problem or call it the Crash of 2011 (paralleling the Crash of 1929) Americans are once again headed for...

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Keep the Students but Get Rid ...

Aug 7, 2011 by

Keep the Students but Get Rid of Their Bodies — A Practical Response to Educational Super-Inflation

By Robert Oliphant Count on the Brits to crucify their American cousins in a recent ECONOMIST article (July 9th) that slams our...

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Reading, Personal Choice, and ...

Jul 21, 2011 by

Reading, Personal Choice, and Measurable Vocabulary Growth — A Panic-Driven Frugality-Learning System

“But Bob, if students learn by reading books, what will be left for the teachers to do?” Back in 1995, my department chair’s elegant...

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