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Schoolhouse Rock: The Four Legged Zoo

This series was some of the best educational programming EVER on network television. It is timeless and I along with millions of other kids in the 70’s grew up on this. Take a moment to reminisce, call the kids to … Continue reading

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Schoolhouse Rock: Three Is A Magic Number

This series was some of the best educational programming EVER on network television. It is timeless and I along with millions of other kids in the 70’s grew up on this. Take a moment to reminisce, call the kids to … Continue reading

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Schoolhouse Rock: Ready Or Not Here I Come

This series was some of the best educational programming EVER on network television. It is timeless and I along with millions of other kids in the 70’s grew up on this. Take a moment to reminisce, call the kids to … Continue reading

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Schoolhouse Rock: Verb

This series was some of the best educational programming EVER on network television. It is timeless and I along with millions of other kids in the 70’s grew up on this. Take a moment to reminisce, call the kids to … Continue reading

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John Legend: Wake Up! We Know How to Fix Our Schools

This is a wake up call to all of us. Education is vital and John Legend argues his case clearly and convincingly. It is time to break the complacency of letting someone else spearhead educational reform and let’s do it … Continue reading

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Schoolhouse Rock: Where the Money Goes

This series was some of the best educational programming EVER on network television. It is timeless and I along with millions of other kids in the 70’s grew up on this. Take a moment to reminisce, call the kids to … Continue reading

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10 ways education reform can begin at home

These ten items that Michelle Bernard writes about are not new. When you think about it, the ten points are exactly what our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents did when they raised my contemporaries, our parents, and their parents. It boils down … Continue reading

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What History Actually Teaches Us About Race

Excellent piece from John McWhorter of the Root. To understand and plan for the future we must know, understand, embrace, and more importantly learn from our past. Our past decades ago as well as the recent past one, two, five … Continue reading

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NAACP takes legal action against Wake schools

This is an interesting suit in North Carolina, especially since education is in the national spotlight at this time. NAACP takes legal action against Wake schools | abc11.com.

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Obama Suggests Extending School Year

This is an excellent suggestion, along with extending the school day. The extra month and time will allow for a deeper more extensive coverage of subject matter allowing students mastery time of material, thereby higher academic achievement. http://politics.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/09/27/obama-suggests-extending-school-year.html.

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