Archive for February 5, 2009

Pity the New President

February 5, 2009

Here (go to: Dear President Obama) is the kind of nonsense (liberal nonsense?) that we’ve been living with much too long. If this sort of talk could only be dispelled from our endless educational chatter, and if only we could get onto the educational reality of our schools, then good things might begin to happen. [...]

Schooling like war is expensive

February 5, 2009

I’ve just read a Boston Globe article, and learned therein that the Boston schools are facing big job cuts, in particular the loss of 900 positions including 403 teachers (out of some 6500 in the district). And I assume, given the dismal state of our economy, that this sort of thing is happening everywhere, most [...]


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