Category Archives: School

Public School Challenge

August 9, 2008 – 8:48 am

Mr. Bob has an excellent 2-part series on the challenges his family faced in public school. After realizing the first of their 4 children were not being taught in the Jefferson County Public Schools, they made a change.
The shock we had that day is why three of our other children attended private, or home or […]

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Olympics history

August 6, 2008 – 6:24 am

Just in time for this Friday’s Olympic opening ceremonies, The Teaching Company has made available two free lectures that present the ancient Greek origins of the Olympics.
Lecture 1 here (MP3 - MP4) and Lecture 2 here (MP3 - MP4).
(HT Open Culture)

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At least I has a educaiton

June 6, 2008 – 11:44 am

At least, you do if you’ve graduated from this high school in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Conflict of Interest

May 31, 2008 – 10:19 am

What do you call someone who builds the regulations that govern some online school programs, then uses these same regulations to sue an online school and the state board of education? Here in Colorado, we call them “legislators.”
Last week Face the State brought the story that Michael Poore, the assistant superintendent for Colorado Springs School […]

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7% of Colorado students enrolled in charter schools

May 16, 2008 – 8:22 am

As long as this week is turning into Education Week on exvigilare, I might as well be consistent.
The Denver Post had this editorial yesterday:
For thousands of parents and students, charter schools offer choices within the public education system. To differing degrees, charter schools feature specialized academic programming and some serve students with unique educational needs. […]

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