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"Dedicated to the premise that no matter what 'experts' say, trends in Education really are fleeting; and that the ONLY goal of all school employees should be to work with parents to help their students become better people in June than they were in September."
Michigan Superintendent of Schools Brian Whiston has a lot of ideas about what he wants to do to improve public education.
Not a one them makes a bit of sense.
In fact you’d hardly believe he’s actually a professional educator.
Read the full story here: Some bad news for kindergartners in Michigan – The Washington Post
The state’s health director says an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County did not get the attention it deserved from his agency. He says it the agency was distracted by the Ebola outbreak.
I don’t buy it.
The Legionnaires’ outbreak killed at least 12 people in 2014 and 15.
There were 11 known cases of Ebola in the U.S., and two fatalities — none were in Michigan.
Read the story here: Health chief: Ebola distracted from Genesee County Legionnaires’ outbreak | Michigan Radio
If you want to fix something, the first thing you have to do is figure out what you are trying to fix. So if you are a GVP activist or supporter, obviously you want to do something about gun violence. But how do you define ‘gun violence?’ Does it mean when someone uses a gun to hurt someone else? Does it mean when someone uses a gun to hurt themselves?…
Source: Is Gun Violence Going Up Or Going Down? A New Technology Gives Us One Answer.
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"That all citizens will be given an equal start through a sound education is one of the most basic, promised rights of our democracy. Our chronic refusal as a nation to guarantee that right for all children.... is rooted in a kind of moral blindness, or at least a failure of moral imagination.... It is a failure which threatens our future as a nation of citizens called to a common purpose... tied to one another by a common bond." —Senator Paul Wellstone --- March 31, 2000
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