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Nichols Poulos is an excellent teacher. She is justly proud of her record with the Gate/AIM program. Her prejudice in favor of that program, however, is evident. She cites evidence and experience to support her program but conveniently dismisses evidence and experience that challenges it. The program has expanded to the point where up to […]
The issue: This dream more distant than ever President Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin contained so many elements that commentators were calling it a “smorgasbord,” but before the speech was delivered, White House aides were drawing reporters’ attention to his call for nuclear reductions, according to the Associated Press, “calling it the centerpiece of his address.” […]
What happens when a big government study undermines the assumptions made by the writers of another pricey official report? Obvious, isn’t it? When studies or parts of studies contradict each other’s basic conclusions and assumptions, the ones that monied interests dislike will usually be ignored. So it is today, with four big government agencies combining […]
Thank you Davis Enterprise for running Vivian Yee’s story from the New York Times on June 25, regarding the increasing use of ability grouping by public school teachers. Yee explains that ability-grouping is increasingly common all over the nation, with 61% of fourth grade teachers grouping students by ability in math in 2011. Flexible ability […]
I am really shocked by the mob killing of four Shia Muslims in Egypt. The silence of president Morsi on such brutal killing adds another layer of failure of this president and his Freedom and Justice Party (the political arm of the Muslim brotherhood) in the governing of Egypt. On Jan. 25, 2011, Egyptian people of all […]
