Well after more than a year without posting – here goes! As per my habit, this post is in reference to an article I just read. And equally as usual it is from the Wall Street Journal – it is from the WSJ’s “random” section on the bottom of the front page. The article is [...]
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Learn From Nature? Apparently Not
Posted in Education, Environment, Technology, tagged Aidan Dwyer, Jan Kleissl, nature, science, Solar Panels, Wall Street Journal on January 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A Profitable School
Posted in Education on June 14, 2010 | 24 Comments »
CAI had a robust discussion on the idea of vouchers a while back, and I kind of missed it, which was unfortunate because I’ve put a great deal of thought into the subject. Actually, what I’ve thought most about how one could make some money in the situation of vouchers. If the goal of a [...]
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Posted in Education, Environment, Politics, tagged Obama, Race to the top, windfarm on May 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A couple things lately have piqued my interest about President Obama. The government okaying wind-farms off Nantucket… which had been stalled for nine years (mostly, as the story is told, because Ted Kennedy and other hoighty-toighties didn’t want their vacation home views interrupted). Good work to Obama to forge ahead despite that view held by [...]
School Vouchers And Competition
Posted in Education, tagged bureaucracy, Education, private schools, public schools, school choice, school vouchers, unions, vouchers on April 15, 2010 | 41 Comments »
I want you to ask yourself something that you know intuitively… does competition bring more benefit to the customer or the company? I know, it’s too easy… the customer. Competition forces organizations to do one of many options: improve their product, become more efficient and lower their costs, decrease profit margin to attract customers, create [...]
A Case For Partisanship
Posted in Culture, Economics, Education, Health Care, Politics, tagged bipartisanship, democrat, partisanship, Politics, republican on March 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Before 2001 I had very few views on anything. 9/11 did not change that… getting out of college and working full-time did. I was daily interacting with older people, and was working for a very smart and politically-minded writer, who’s legal scripts left me searching for what on earth he was talking about. It was [...]
Disturbed Much?
Posted in Culture, Education, Politics, tagged GLSEN, Kevin Jennings, Obama czar on December 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
MARK ADDS: Just read something that could serve as an addendum to this post…. by Charles Winecoff at Big Hollywood. His take is unique in that he is a gay man that challenges Jennings generally, but more specifically the agenda of progressive gay curricula pushers. To wit: Ninety-nine percent of gay kids are the products of [...]
Do Nothing – Get Paid!
Posted in Education, Politics, tagged LAUSD, pathetic, school districts, unions on May 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Sounds like an ad on Facebook or something, but it’s actually the theme of a story by the Los Angeles Times about teachers in LA Unified that are “housed” – basically paid to do nothing while charges against them go through the system. The main portion of the story details disabled teacher Matthew Kim, who [...]
Weekend Thought Provocation
Posted in Belief, Culture, Economics, Education, Environment, Miscellany, Technology, tagged legalize, The Economist, War on Drugs on March 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
End The War On Drugs? Last weeks issue of The Economist had a series on the global drug war and the cost/benefits of ending the prohibition of drugs. Their conclusion, and one that they have held since 1988, is that “the least bad policy is to legalize drugs”. Take a look at the article and [...]
TED’s In Town
Posted in Culture, Education, Environment, Miscellany, Music & Film, Technology, tagged TED on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
TED is holding their first conference in Long Beach next month after 20 years in Monterey, CA. I was introduced to TED years ago when I ran across Bjørn Lomborg’s presentation at a conference. It is an incredible organization designed to bring together innovative thinkers and doers to present their ideas on Technology, Entertainment, and [...]
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