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  1. Blog: WORLD LEADER: Interestingly, the United States is home to a program that is, to my knowledge, t... bit.ly/LP2uHC #education
  2. Blog: EDUCATION LITE: EducationViews.org; Houston, TexasEDUCATION LITEWill FitzhughThe Concord Revie... bit.ly/KKvLG7 #education
  3. Blog: TYRANNY OF THE PRESENT:  Bertrand Russell, after his first disastrous experiment in organizing ... bit.ly/JLK9PY #education
  4. Art, Music, Drama, Dance, Math, Science, Poetry, Sports—YES!...History? Not so much for students in our schools.
  5. We now prepare more than one million U.S. high school students every year for college remedial courses...
  6. How about one-half a history book in the four years of high school? Still too much for our students to read?
  7. College Board is thinking about Extended Essays for the first time. Hello!? TCR published an issue of AP History Essays in 1995!
  8. Read one complete history book in four years of high school? That's too much to expect of our students, right?
  9. Don't Ask, Don't Tell...If you should see a HS student reading an actual history book, just pretend you didn't.
  10. HS Sports activity is widely covered by the local media, but any HS Academic Achievement is not to be mentioned...Why is that?
  11. Is it true that "deeper learning" for HS kids will not include history books or actual history research papers?
  12. Blog: SPEED KILLS: SchoolInfoSystem.org; Madison, WisconsinSPEED KILLSWill FitzhughThe Concord Review... bit.ly/JMb7El #education
  13. "What Huxley feared was there there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one." Postman
  14. The CCSO made it to "nonfiction texts," but actual history books were a "Bridge Too Far" for them...
  15. “If professors don't tell students that the writing matters, who will?...” chronicle.com/article/Why-We… Article by @racheltoor
  16. Mechanicalisticalism reduces quality in education.
  17. Blog: QUICK AND DIRTY ROBOSCORING: An Interview with Will Fitzhugh: Robot Graders Behaving Badly?Post... bit.ly/IWKgGp #education
  18. Rodin's "The Thinker" has his right elbow on his left knee. Try it some time.
  19. If teachers can give knowledge, how come they can't take it away to achieve a "level playing field" of ignorance for the Core?
  20. “Cicero remarked that the purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.” Kieran Egan