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It is Timothy Egan’s opinion, in a December 2011 Times op ed piece, Please Stop Sharing, especially now with the ease of access to internet technology and in particular Facebook and Twitter, that we’re sharing too much. Are we? Can we ever share, go public with too much of ourselves? In important senses isn’t sharing [...]

Mike Thanks for directing me to Kelly Flynn’s piece in Ed Week. Have always, well since I was a public school teacher in 1969, felt the same, that the elephant in the room was bad behavior, student apathy, absenteeism and other such, and that we, teachers, (and administrators, parents, everyone) refused to talk about it. And [...]

In today’s Times (February 20) Thomas B. Edsall summarizes what he sees as the electoral positions of the President and his Republican challengers (in as much as one can lump them together). President Obama, he says, is calling for additional investment in public education thereby growing the chances of everyone to succeed, for revisions to [...]

The passage below comes from a “Stone” article in today’s NYTimes. I couldn’t resist sending it to you, not because I thought for a moment it would alleviate your suffering. I knew for sure that it would not. But, I thought, it would arouse at least a smile, or laugh on your part, the ‘best [...]

Dale Stephens, just 20 years old and himself a college dropout, asks in a Times Blog, Why Go to College at All? In response to his questioner he pretty much rejects the reasons people give for going to college. All  except for one, status. That one he allows. College does confer some status, especially if [...]