Hi All.... hope this finds you well.
My state is about out of money.... seems many others are in a similar state of affairs.
I can not help but go here: The Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Since 2001, the United States alone has spent over $687 billion on the Iraq war. We have spent over $228 billion on the war in Afghanistan. By the end of this year, 2009, we will have allocated about a trillion dollars for these two wars.
There are costs over and above the expenditures mentioned above…
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Added by Mike on November 23, 2009 at 7:24pm —
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Carlisle Indian School
SCHOOL LIFE
Teachers were waiting at the school to begin their work. Pratt had hired a full complement of staff, both for academic and industrial instruction. They had been carefully selected and were ready to begin as soon as the children arrived. Pratt…
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Added by Mike on June 5, 2009 at 7:24pm —
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Hope and Despair in the American City
Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh
Gerald Grant
In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5–4 verdict in the case of Milliken v. Bradley, thereby blocking the state of Michigan from merging the Detroit public school system with those of…
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Added by Mike on March 21, 2009 at 11:19pm —
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Earliest human footprints made 1.5million years ago show ancestors walked like us
27th February 2009
Two sets of prints were left by Homo ergaster, an early ancestor of modern humans, in separate rock layers near Ileret in northern Kenya.
Laser scanning revealed tha…
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Added by Mike on March 10, 2009 at 10:34pm —
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SOMETIMES
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories
who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,
you come
to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening reques…
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Added by Mike on February 1, 2009 at 12:01pm —
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“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really…
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Added by Mike on January 14, 2009 at 6:29pm —
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Let's remake the world with words.
Not frivolously, nor
To hide from what we fear,
But with a purpose.
Let's,
As Wordsworth said, remove
"The dust of custom" so things
Shine again, each object arrayed
In its robe of original light.
And then we'll see the world
As if for the first tim…
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Added by Mike on December 30, 2008 at 3:49pm —
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Added by Mike on December 16, 2008 at 9:53pm —
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As we know, since NCLB, many schools have jumped on the latest craze, DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING!
It has been my experience that many schools have jumped on board with the rhetoric of this movement.... but the depth is sorely lacking. Certainly not just an educational problem.... i…
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Added by Mike on December 14, 2008 at 2:54pm —
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ONE.......
A GOOD REMINDER...........
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Added by Mike on December 7, 2008 at 12:12pm —
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Thoughts on a cold evening!
Western culture has a long history of mistreatment of children. Children were legally property to be used, misused, neglected or discarded by adults. We have a long history of instilling obedience in our children.
This pattern continues. 21 States i…
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Added by Mike on November 18, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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Reflections on a fall night....................
Palmer writes, "we teach who we are" and invites us into a deeper inquiry about education—teaching and learning—that is often overlooked. This is the interior territory of who it is we are.
It is not the "what" question (…
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Added by Mike on November 9, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in." Rachel Carson
The Trifid Nebula. A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.
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Added by Mike on November 7, 2008 at 8:48pm —
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States
Percent Contribution
Alabama 55.6
Alaska 56.5
Arizona 45.1
Arkansas 73.4
California 58.3
Colorado 42.7
Connecticut 38
Delaware 64.5
District of Columbia N/A
Florida 40.2
Georgia 44.2
Hawaii 89.9
Idaho 55.8
Illinois 32.3
Indiana 47.5
Iowa 45.7
Kansas 56.8
Kentucky 57.3
Louisiana 41.5
Maine 41.5
Maryland 39.2
Massachusetts 44
Michigan 59.3
Minnesota 70.7
Mississippi 49.4
Missouri 43.6
Montana 45.9
Nebraska 31.4
Nevada 57.9
New Hampshire 39.2
New Jersey 41.3
New Mexico 71.2
New York…
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Added by Mike on November 4, 2008 at 1:55pm —
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Kosmos Journal
http://www.kosmosjournal.org/kjo/articles/articlessub2/integral-creative.shtml
The Integral Creative Cycle
A Participatory Model of Integral Education
By Jorge N. Ferrer, Ph.D
Associate Professor, California Institute of Integral Studies
Marina T. Romero
Director, ESTEL School of Integral Studies
Ramon V. Albareda
Director, ESTEL School of Integral Studies
A Participatory Model of Integral Education
Whether in nature or in human reality, a creative process usually u…
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Added by Mike on November 3, 2008 at 2:50pm —
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[29 September 2008 - By Steven Dahlberg - Report from the Global Creative Leadership Summit]
http://www.creativeleadershipsummit.org/event_program/panels.php?panel=4
"What kinds of minds do we want to cultivate?" asked Howard Gardner last week at the Global Creative Leadership Summit. "What kinds are most important?"
Gardner, who is a professor of education at Harvard University, described five minds that are important -- disciplined, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical -- and requ…
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Added by Mike on October 31, 2008 at 8:17pm —
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Thought we could begin to collect information from the 2 canidates to at least try and define their position on education..... hey.... have you noticed out there that higher education is getting pulled into the usual K-12 debates more and more....... all you higher ed folks.... welcome to our world! :)
John McCain's Plan for Strengthening America's Schools
Today, John McCain Outlined His Vision For Strengthening Education To Ensure Opportunity For Every American. John McCain's educati…
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Added by Mike on August 27, 2008 at 3:38pm —
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Always liked this little book that i stumbled into.... i do not agree with everything in this book...but it certainly gave me many opportunities to think! I thought i would collect some favorite passages to keep on my blog :)
WRITING:
I SUSPECT THAT THOSE WHO have read some of my other works will be a little surprised by this one. I am a little surprised by this one.
That, in itself, is nothing new. I have never yet written anything, long or short, that did not surprise me. That is, fo…
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Added by Mike on August 27, 2008 at 1:46pm —
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After spending years in and around schools.... some thoughts........
The Critical Need for Leadership & Reflective Practice........
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs, now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is as far as he knows the only way of coming downstairs, but somewhere he feels there is another way, if only he could stop for a moment and think of it.” A. A. Milne
Research: School Leadership........
Marzano(2003 & 2004)
**Le…
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Added by Mike on August 12, 2008 at 11:36am —
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Darling-Hammond op-ed:
"High quality standards, a curriculum based on critical thinking can enlighten our students"
October 14, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle
By Linda Darling-Hammond
One of the central lessons of No Child Left Behind is that if school sanctions are tied to test scores, the testing tail can wag the schooling dog. And a key problem for the United States is that most of our tests aren't measuring the kinds of 21st century skills we need students to acquire and that are…
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Added by Mike on August 7, 2008 at 4:29pm —
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