Perspectives of a Lifelong Learner
THE BEFORE YEARS - PART I Some say '63, '64 or even '65. Others think '68. For me, it was '67, the end of adolescence. Commencement was over and we had said our goodbyes. Yearbooks sported both the sincere and the trite, those embarrassing scribbles scanned but not read. Back home, we searched the pages,... Continue Reading →
A TEN-POINT ACTION PLAN FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS (OR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS) By Richard Florida and Steven Pedigo "Even as cities focus on a full-out mobilization of required health and medical resources to cope with the first phase of this pandemic, it is important that economic developers mobilize all available resources to get their communities ready... Continue Reading →
U.S. public education is rooted in the belief by early American leaders that the most important knowledge to impart to young people is what it means to be a citizen. If America is experiencing a civic crisis now, as many say it is, schools may well be failing at that job. To better understand the... Continue Reading →
"Civic education, like all education, is a continuing enterprise and conversation," Roberts said. "Each generation has an obligation to pass on to the next, not only a fully functioning government responsive to the needs of the people, but the tools to understand and improve it." http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/school_law/2019/12/chief_justice_warns_that_civic.html?cmp=soc-facebook-shr&fbclid=IwAR37tJFJVhBdrL8AjkfWThXnVjg5phhNWbcv6oPeTAnlYE9JiEtClEdfsZs http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/school_law/2019/12/chief_justice_warns_that_civic.html?cmp=soc-facebook-shr&fbclid=IwAR37tJFJVhBdrL8AjkfWThXnVjg5phhNWbcv6oPeTAnlYE9JiEtClEdfsZs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/opinion/sunday/political-polarization.html?fbclid=IwAR0t4dN76SYMSwq0VcLp_Eo6cjEAwCmpB0SBxksbJRDrFi6fuACkUCgodJg This is a must read. Arthur Brook's focus on contempt does seem to capture the mood of the nation although I would posit, with all due respect to the Civil War, this is not the most polarizing period of American history. It may just be quibbling but the Reconstruction Period, the occupation of southern States... Continue Reading →
We have only ourselves to blame for the death of Social Studies. by Todd Stanley Today in the state of Ohio, Social Studies met its untimely death. The cause of death is disinterest in the subject area as evidenced by the elimination of state tests in 4th and 6th grades. This acts as the... Continue Reading →
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