Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2023

When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don't Know

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This is outrageous. Nothing good will come of sidelining parents like this --- it's tantamount to having the state take your kid away fr...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

The Great Teacher Resignation

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Interesting article, though it downplays leftist indoctrination in the schools. Otherwise, do doubt America's teachers are fucked. See, ...
Friday, April 1, 2022

Parents in Baltimore File Lawsuit Against the City and School District for Failing Students, Some Graduating With 1.0 GPAs

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At the Blaze, " Baltimore parents sue city after student graduates high school not being able to read; shocking number of students have...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

What Students With Disabilities Lost to COVID.

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From Glenn Reynolds, at Instapundit, " THEY DIDN’T LOSE IT TO COVID, THEY LOST IT TO THE LOCKDOWNS AND THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS ."
Sunday, February 13, 2022

What's Really at Stake in America's History Wars?

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At WSJ, " In debates about monuments, curricula and renaming, the facts of the past matter less than how we are supposed to feel about...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

College Students Forgot How to Talk to Each Other

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The Democrat Party pandemic lockdown policies have set back, if not destroyed, a generation of young people, and not just school children.  ...

Children Are Facing Learning and Speech Delays Due to Being Masked for Two Years

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At AoSHQ, "' Kids are resilient!' -- The only harms we have to worry about are those suffered by the adult teachers! "
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

L.A. Unified Sees Sharp Decline in Attendance

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Wow, this is some serious number of absentees! At LAT , " L.A. Unified enrollment drops by more than 27,000 students, steepest decline ...
Wednesday, September 8, 2021

In Return to Classroom, Universities and Professors Struggle with Covid

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My division dean just sent out an announcement on this yesterday. How to handle?  1. Notify sick student to stay the hell off campus.  2. Re...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Besieged in the Culture Wars

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 At NYT , " The School Culture Wars: ‘You Have Brought Division to Us ’": July and August are supposed to be the quietest months o...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Been Busy *Shrugs*

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Sorry for the lack of posting of late, dear readers. I don't mean to let anybody down, heh. The fact is I've been swamped with work ...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

The Miseducation of America's Elites

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Dear readers, my apologies for the light blogging. I'm hitting "crunch time" this week in my "online remote" classes...
Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Professor Danielle Allen on 'A More Resilient Union' (VIDEO)

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I assigned Ms. Allen's piece in my introduction to American government classes just last week, and it's interesting to see her now i...
Wednesday, December 30, 2020

'Higher levels of drug abuse and overdoses, massive increases in mental health hospital visits, along with surging suicide rates among children have been cited by the Centers for Disease Control as stemming from pandemic school closures...'

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At Issues & Insights, " The Real Reason Why Your Kids Can’t Go Back to School (Hint: It’s Not COVID-19) ."
Friday, December 25, 2020

Dissident Women's Studies Ph.D. Speaks

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It's Samantha Jones (not her real name, to protect against leftist death threats, apparently), at New Discourses, " A Dissident Wom...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Online Learning Cheats Poor Students

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I don't know if it "cheats" them, but it's certainly not working out. At LAT, " A generation left behind? Online le...
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Professors Fear COVID-19 as College Campuses Reopen

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I'm going to be 59 next month, and while I'm not afraid to teach in person, I'd prefer not to have to with classrooms full of sn...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Online Despair, Loneliness and Camaraderie at UCSD

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Some like remote online teaching. Others not so much. At the San Diego Union-Tribune, " Reddit diaries: Online courses are stirring d...
Sunday, April 26, 2020

Cal State Fullerton is One of First in the Nation to Announce Fully Online Education for Fall Semester

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I'm waiting to hear if my college is going to full online instruction in the fall. Our summer session for 2020 is already set for fully ...
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Monday, February 11, 2019

The Disaster of Public Education

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This is an awesome essay. RTWT, at Quillette: "Bad teaching is a common explanation given for the disastrously inadequate public edu...
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