by Whitney | Jan 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
There’s tons of folks who think education should be run like a business from the financial end. I disagree with this, mainly because education is essentially long term research and development of new citizens, and doesn’t have an easily qualifiable Return...
by Whitney | Dec 10, 2010 | business, community, education
Recently, I’ve heard a lot of people saying things like “They just don’t get it,” with a rather, fed-up, exasperated voice, like “There’s nothing you can do to help THOSE folks. They’re Hopeless.” I know we’ve...
by Whitney | Oct 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
The current political season is driving me crazy. I have, for some time, joked that all candidates for public office should have to do two things : 1) Take the current SAT test and publish their scores, and 2) Take a basic civics test, like the one all immigrants...
by Whitney | Sep 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
There’s a perception in this Country that education is broken. Oprah has jumped on the bandwagon with her shows on the “Waiting for Superman” documentaries, and made a lot of comments that are known to be more myth than fact. I won’t say...
by Whitney | Jul 14, 2010 | books, community, education
Seth Godin has a great blog post about two different types of teaching- one that’s all about facts and procedures, and one that’s more about learning to see and solve interesting problems. This caught my attention, because I’ve been having alot of...
