This petition is part of the movement to take education back from the profiteers. Read it, and if you so decide, sign it. I was linked to it by my friend who is very active in progressive education, and whose lead I susally follow in these things.

. . . today I was told not to bother applying for the children's center permit, as I do not need it to get hired. No, I should wait and take the two administration classes I need to qualify for the site director's license, because all the licenses cost the same: I can always "just teach" with the admin license: and the state funding for continuing ( Read more... )

So it turns out my credential isn't what I thought it was ( Read more... )

Read this, and then also, follow the link.  A friend of mine is examining Bill Gates' (and others') "philanthropy" and what it actually entails, and what it costs us.

And then, read this response from Frank:

I don't think you should combine the vaccine controversy with the education stuff, because the vaccine issue is a lot more arguable. The plan of ( Read more... )

[Name redacted] gets to go to college!Let me tell you about this beautiful, smart, brave young woman. She arrived here when she was three. Her parents have been staying here by shenanigans with tourist visas. She graduated from high school on time -- and could have done it early -- with decent grades, while at the same time she has been ( Read more... )

The Republican Party has a plan. The plan is to destroy everything. Look at these things (not in any order):

-- destroy the ability of working people to act in their own behalf
(abolish collective bargaining rights)

--destroy education
(abolish public schools)
(oppose national funding for school construction)

-- destroy modern medicine
( ( Read more... )

This is possibly my first of these since the nice fellow died. Maybe not. I'm not up to checking.

Here are my favorite headlines from today's Sentinel:

They've posted a corrected phone number for Fish and Game so you can report mountain lion sightings. (I was going to insert a link to James Thurber's "After the Steppe Cat, what?" from Let Your ( Read more... )

So my daughter has to take this physics class. She has to buy a two hundred dollar textbook. She can't share, or use a second-hand book, because the class also requires a thirty-dollar clicker ( a thing that you use to answer quizzes in class and to participate in various class exercises), which cannot be registered without the book. And in order ( Read more... )

So we get in the mail this thing from the state, a report on the STAR test (as opposed to the CAT-9 or the CAT-6 or the HSEE or whatever other test). She's over the edge into what they call "advanced" in English-Language Arts and "Summative High School Mathematics," and just under the edge in History-Social Science, and has no score in Science ( Read more... )

Buck up ( Read more... )