September 2011
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Where Are Our Professional Organizations?
There has been so much written about the state of education and how to “fix” it I sometimes feel as if my head is going to explode. Republican governors in Ohio and Wisconsin want to end collective bargaining and tenure. Politicians in both Washington D.C, and many states want to expand vouchers and charter schools, perhaps ending public education as we know it. Federal mandates (NCLB...
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The Value Of College
For the past several years I’ve been reading articles about the value of a college education and whether or not the heavy burden of student loan debt was worth the “value” of going to college. This argument has always bothered me. Today I read two articles (article 1, article 2) from my hometown newspaper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, discussing the cost of college and whether or...
