by admin | May 9, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics - NC
Dear NC Representatives, Congratulations on introducing HB 823 to amend the constitution and put the future of our children in the hands of a Superintendent elected by the people of North Carolina. Thank you. As you know, the all-powerful 8-year appointees of the SBE...
by admin | May 4, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics - NC, Uncategorized
May 3, 2011 Re: Senate Bill 724 – An Act to Improve Public Education Dear Senator: Thank you for your efforts to improve education in North Carolina. Unfortunately, the addition of the new paragraph to 115C-296(b) will not accomplish anything for our children. For...
by admin | Apr 23, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Reviews
by Susan Pass August 30, 2008 – How anyone can read Vygotsky’s work and conclude that he was a constructivist is beyond me. Pass doesn’t get a pass twisting Vygotsky for her own purposes. Forget her. Read Vygotsky and Piaget for yourself and see the...
by admin | Apr 23, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Reviews
By L. S. Vygotsky (???Author???), Michael Cole (Editor), Vera John-Steiner (Editor), Sylvia Scribner (Editor), Ellen Souberman (Editor) Revisionist Vygotsky – Save your money! January 4, 2009 – This reissue of a 1978 reprint is supposedly a collection...
by admin | Apr 23, 2011 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics - US, Reviews
by Siegfried Engelmann February 2, 2009: Throughout history, adventurers have chronicled their journeys though strange territories to the great benefit of mankind. Marco Polo’s journals introduced the West to the Orient. Columbus’ logs opened the western...
by admin | Apr 20, 2011 | Education - K-12, Politics, Politics - NC
Raleigh – The House has a solid WIN-WIN-WIN in H344. The winners are our state’s disabled children, our state’s disabled treasury, and the State Board of Education (SBE). The children win because their parents become eligible to receive a tax credit for...
