Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Greene County is a school district in rural Georgia. The population is comprised of approximately 14,000 residents of which 2,000 are school students.
Greene County nearly became the first school district to go entirely single-sex, whereby boys and girls would be in separate classrooms and future proms would be lame ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Good Friday. For me, since Friday is the last day of the working week, every Friday for me is Good Friday.
Ever hear of a fellow called Raymond Simon? FYI, he is not a musician. Simon is the US Deputy Secretary of Education. His job is to focus primarily on K12 ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Good afternoon. I am wearing a striped hoodie from UrbanOutfitters. And feeling like an urbanite. While I write this post, I am listening to hardcore rap music. The genre of music is pretty mandatory as I am employed by an educational company...
The title of the post was almost "an arrogant ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
(The title of this post is dedicated to the return of CSI Miami to our dependent airwaves. I love you Horatio Caine)
Good Wednesday. I am wearing a brand new pair of blue sneakers. Bought them on Sunday. And they are hip looking. I had no idea that sneakers would go ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
It’s early afternoon here at GlobalScholar.com. And I am sipping on tea from a paper cup, as Styrofoam has been outlawed from our office premises. FYI, I am using a “Green” version of Microsoft Word to write this up. And when I type in the word Styrofoam” it gives me ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Good Tuesday. I am trying something new. And since I generally do not try new things, this post constitutes a double novelty:
the new thing
this in itself that I am venturing into something new
Here's how it will work; my job is to bring sexy back to education. Call me the Justin ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Good Monday. I will not get into the details of my weekend. Just want to advise you NOT to watch Vantage Point . At any cost. There was a ton of snickering in the theater during the movie.
On Friday night, a snippet in the WSJ caught my roving eye. (The ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Good Friday. Literally. Ever heard of a women by the name of Margaret Spellings? Don't worry. Neither did I. Until last night. I was in bed. Reading my US News Magazine. A much better read than this week's Star Magazine's cover story of "Stars without Makeup". Who needs makeup? I ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
A few weeks, the Wall Street Journal, once again, had a terrific article titled "Engineering classes a growing part of U.S. curriculum". This time it was about school integrating concepts of engineering in their curriculum. We're talking K12 students being introduced into elementary level engineering.
The opening paragraphs are about a ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
This is an election year. For real. The major issues being discussed are National Security and the Economy. And once again, Education has taken a back seat on the urgent-policy-change bus. Of course the candidates believe that education is important. Very important. At least they say so. And as they ...
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