by admin | May 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
RES. 171 Congratulating the students, parents, teachers, and administrators of charter schools across the United States for making ongoing contributions to education, and supporting the ideals and goals of the 16th annual National Charter Schools Week, to be held May...
by admin | Apr 11, 2015 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Reviews, Uncategorized
CURRICULUM CRITIQUE: SCOTT, FORESMAN’S “DISCOVER SCIENCE” [When organizing some digital archives on this rainy Saturday, I came across this paper that I had written in the early 1990’s while taking a course for a lateral entry teaching...
by admin | Nov 7, 2014 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Politics, Politics - NC, Politics - US, Uncategorized
Abstract When free-enterprise solutions are unleashed in a competitive environment controlled by local parental choice not remote bureaucratic dictates, both students and taxpayers win. A charter school in Southeastern North Carolina has a 15-year time-tested model...
by admin | Sep 14, 2014 | Education - K-12, Learning and Education, Letters to the Blogger, Reviews, Uncategorized
[The following is the text of a brief address that I gave to an assembly of students at Charter Day School, Leland, NC in 2004. I have repeated it several times since and now share it with you on the anthem’s 200th anniversary.] Our 20th President James...
by admin | Jul 7, 2014 | Education - K-12, Politics, Politics - NC, Uncategorized
Governments by Open Records: The original purpose of transparency through Open Meetings and Public Records and LEA salary disclosures is that these laws applied to the governments which made the rules and controlled the public’s money– the governments, whether state...
by admin | May 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
(left) Capt. Mitchell Johnston, VF-16 Navy F6F ACE on the Hornet. Flew with Butch O’Hare, With Capt. Fred Chapman, squadron mate on the Hornet. (far right) Major James V. Johnston, 2nd Bn., 334th Regt., 84th Inf. Div., KIA March 1, 1945. Johnston Stadium...
