Category Archives: Education

The Straw Man of Teacher Pay

Posted on March 1, 2011 by David

photo credit: 2create I saw a post on Facebook, and later an email, with a title about how overpaid teachers are. The post went on to show mathematically that teachers are not overpaid by any reasonable measurement. Teachers and their … Continue reading →

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Parent-Child Interaction Therapy

Posted on January 18, 2011 by David

When all attempts at progress either backfire or have no discernible effect its time to seek further insight and experience. Such has been the case for us recently as we have found it impossible with only the expertise of ourselves … Continue reading →

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Addressing the Symptoms

Posted on May 14, 2010 by David

photo credit: sigma. As if to prove the point I made in my last post about passing out casts and crutches, the Seattle Post Intelligencer this week published an essay from Brad Soliday, a teacher in eastern Washington, where he … Continue reading →

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Use the Proper Tool

Posted on May 22, 2009 by David

I have written before about our national propensity to use government when it is not the proper tool for the job. Scott summed my point up very succinctly in a recent post: There is a proper tool for every job. … Continue reading →

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Proposal

Posted on April 29, 2005 by David

In a discussion board for my Using Technology to Enhance Learning class I made a proposal (on March 18th this year) based on teachers having a scarcity of time and the fact that teachers are underpaid partially because they are … Continue reading →

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