Bob Morris Posted on Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:45 am.
The continued failure of the United States to provide decent education to its citizens threatens national security, says a recent report by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR.) The study was co-chaired by Joel I. Klein, former head of New York City public schools and Condoleezza Rice, former US Secretary of State. The report is [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:43 am.
Our educational system continues to disintegrate. Philadelphia will shut 40 schools next year and 6 per years after that until 2017 due to funding shortfalls and mismanagement. Their school district is shutting down. That’s right, shutting down. Their Chief Recovery Officer says “There’s a redefinition, and we’ll get to that later.” Apparently the Education Fairy [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Tue Feb 14, 2012 17:30 pm.
You may be startled to learn that California ranks at the very bottom in spending on education as compared to other states. It is 50th in the nation, dead last, in students per teacher and librarian, 49th in students per guidance counselor, and not above 45th is other categories. Clearly, California has been going wrong [...]
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Byron DeLear Posted on Sun Oct 9, 2011 16:00 pm.
One of the characteristics of our educational system has different subjects put into neat separate boxes. Math, reading, art, science. Today, we see much more blurriness and convergence between subjects like science, religion, philosophy. This “Gnostic syncretism”—the combining of knowledge—is especially apparent when teasing out the details surrounding revolutionary innovations. The inspiration that leads to [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:15 am.
From Bill Gross, Managing Director of Pimco, in another of his wondrous monthly rants. American citizens and its universities have experienced an ivy-laden ivory tower for the past half century. Students, however, can no longer assume that a four year degree will be the golden ticket to a good job in a global economy that [...]
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Wes Rolley Posted on Mon Jun 6, 2011 10:30 am.
It is easy to become lulled into intellectual somnolence by the seemingly gradual changes we are incurring in our weather. After all, just how bad can a couple of degrees be? Oh, we wake up every once in a while when our catastrophe leads media reports on some hurricane, flood or tornado, especially if the [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Oct 20, 2010 22:24 pm.
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award. Truly amazing, fun to watch, filled with ideas how to change education.
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Josh Mull Posted on Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:19 am.
California’s budget crisis is actually much less than they’re spending on the war in Afghanistan. $26 billion for the budget vs $38 billion for war. And what do they get for it? It’s not better to live in California thanks to the war. It’s actually getting much, much worse.
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