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The Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction of the Southlake school district in Texas, cautioned teachers to “make...
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In the mid-1800s, frantic prospectors joined the Gold Rush in quest of the mother lode that would make them fabulously rich. The New...
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Every school has its share of the best and the worst, as routinely defined. The finest teachers are in the best schools and also in...
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The UFT’s endorsement of Eric Adams for mayor is a prudent and practical decision and not a cynical concession to realpolitik,...
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Mayor DeBlasio, whose “Vision Zero” is a slogan about traffic safety but better describes the brand of his legacy in...
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Doing the right thing the wrong way can be as ruinous as not doing it at all when plans for carrying it out are logistically...
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Can a risk/benefit analysis conclude that falling off a cliff is a chance worth taking? As a viable alternative to...
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Do today’s military generals lack the boldness, competence and nobility of purpose of their World War II predecessors? Have...
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The New York City schools are historically the jewel in the crown of American education, but if the Department of Education carries...
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The recent death of Bruce Birnel, my former colleague on staff at a middle school in Queens, reminded me of how our New York City...
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When history, as it has been traditionally taught, is revisited and challenged in sufficient numbers, it gains momentum and...
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It’s been significantly but sparsely and perhaps unreliably reported that a major organization of teachers voted down a...
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The Department of Education meets The Aristocrats. What have they in common, other than both being jokes?The DOE has been the butt...
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With the Delta variant getting us down, let’s still try to count our blessings, among them that the Department of Education is...
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The greedy, selfish, opportunistic United Federation of Teachers is once again, with the complicity of its supplicants in the City...
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Universal vaccination is not currently mandated by law. Perhaps it should be, but for the present, individuals have the right...
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Teacher certification is not all kit’s cracked up to be. Being licensed is a qualification for employment, but one should not...
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The developers of the polio vaccine were greed-driven, because they owned stock in a triathlete-training company and wanted to ensure...
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Students and educators sometimes pick the Holocaust as a default topic for school projects and audiences also find it lends itself to...
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A Department of Education investigation that should have taken two weeks was fast-tracked by them and therefore took only two years....
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