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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Fwd: Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We Do?]
In a message dated 9/9/2006 5:53:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, rparkany@borg.com writes: ...when teachers like I and many others I know are denied tenure or outright fired for teaching socially constructivist curriculae rather than drill & kill scripted fodder OR run up head-long into some parochial, old gals network (80% of the teachers in our middle schools in Utica are FEmale and BOY! do they entrench odd agendas OFF the educational map!) we don't get a Hurrah! nor narry a Huzzah! do we? _______________________________________________________________ So Parkany says George Bush, the Fordham Foundation, and the Business Roundtable aren't the problem after all. The real problems are failure to appreciate "socially constructivist curriculae" and that so many teachers are female. And you learned it right here, in the wacky world of ARN. Art
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