Pressing Issues: We're NOT Number One--Or Number Fifteen, Even

Pressing Issues: We're NOT Number One--Or Number Fifteen, Even: AP with report on new global survey of adults in various countries and their level of reading, math skills and problem solving.  We see a l...

University of California

It seems true that most Californians no longer think of the University of California as their university. If that is the fact, I am sure that they have good reasons for thinking that way.

Californians now think so little of their university that they give it less emotional, intellectual, and financial support than is need for the University to continue as theirs. For the first time in the history of the University, private philanthropists contribute more to it than do the people of the State. The influence of military and corporate money is as great, or greater, than it has ever been.

State universities across the land are suffering similar experience. The heart of the experience seems to be the buying by the 1%, that which once belonged to the people.

It might be worthwhile to revisit the purpose for which the people built these great institutions

Notes on Education or: Where is the US?

The best education being practice today is probably in Latin America. However that education is largely of elites.

I've tried to find the the countries which succeeded best at educating an entire people well. The most effective democratic education systems are found in the following countries. I begin with the country with the best education for the highest percent of its people:

Finland

Sweden
Norway

Canada

Australia

Denmark

South Korea

New Zealand

France

Vatican City

Andorra

Greenland

Switzerland

Luxembourg

Germany

Iceland

Ireland

Georgia

and others, including the UK are ahead of the US in most accepted measures of education.

The Veil of Ignorance Has Been Lifted: Do You Like the Country You Live In? | Floating University | Big Think

The Veil of Ignorance Has Been Lifted: Do You Like the Country You Live In? | Floating University | Big Think

The best of you knows best.

Here is another site intended to help us enhance our education, strengthen our abilities, and sharpen our understanding online.

These guys might be a bit big for their britches, but they are helping.

Open Culture

Open Culture

Lots of courses.....................................

Lots of free education ..................................


click on the link above

EdWorkforce Journal | Committee on Education and the Workforce, Democrats

EdWorkforce Journal Committee on Education and the Workforce, Democrats



Informative and encouraging set of playable videos.

Not Much Left

What do we have left to give up?


I looks as though we have just about given up being us.


In the 1950s we gave up our war powers.


In the 1960s we gave up our military.


In the 1970s we gave up K - 12 education.


Remind me, what did we give up in the 80s and 90s?


Now it looks like before 2020 we will have given up our higher education.


The University of California seemed representative of State higher eduction:
* private capital already pays for more of it than we do;
* undercover quasi-ferderal projects have co-opted significant portions of it;
* we seem not to control the curricula;
* it looks like that before the end of next year students will be paying more for their studies than we do.


I seems that there is noting that we are not willing to give up. The worthless of yesteryear may have been willing to sell their soul to the devil. We seem willing to give ours away.


Who are we?

"Book" Learning

I believe, given appropriate cooperation and understanding, that teachers perpetuate a nation and make it thrive. Parents, with the cooperation of other citizens must organize to create and maintain the kinds of schools teachers need to do their job. Students, teachers, and the nation need schools that adequately transmit the literate national language and culture. With out the sustaining organization of parents, teachers, and other concerned citizens, the unity and effectiveness of the nation declines.


A large percentage of the literate culture of the US is undisputed so we can find it easy to agree to continue to teach it. About 80% of it has been in use for over a hundred years.


Such undisputed literate culture is what allows us to communicate among ourselves effectively. It allows grandparents to communicate with grand children, Southerners with Midwesterners, Asians  with 'Blacks', 'Whites' with 'Hispanics, Republicans with Democrats. We can communicate with strangers taught a common literate culture.

Public Schools

Can you help me answer any of these questions I have about public schools? Maybe you can help me to for better questions about public schools.

Where does a school board come from?
What is a school board?
Why haven't school boards insured that their schools have good civics program?
What is a good civics program?
Where does a school district come from?
Can a school district be sued for not having a good civics program?
Which organizations support public public schools?
Why have parents sent their children to unsafe schools?
Why did our forefathers want public schools to be under local control rather State or County control?
What citizenship skills were taught in public schools?
What are the alternatives to public schools?
What did public school educators mean by 'common core' education?
What did our forefathers think the advantages of public schools are?
What are the rationals for having a pubic school?
What are pubic schools?

First Meditation on Education: "Common Core"

Upon what is our ability to communicate built
Our grandparents learned.
Our parents learned.
We have learned.
Our children are learning.
Its likely that their children will learn.
Our learning over time is what gives us the power to communicate over time.
Our history tells us that we are capable of a high level of literacy.
The nature of our literacy allows us to make and to preserve a modern nation.
What had makers and preservers of a modern nation best learn?
What part does teaching play in our learning?
What did they teach our grandparents?
Who were they?
How did they know that which they taught?
What would you like to learn about communication?
With who might it be important that you communicate?
What do you wish others knew about communication?
What are a couple of communication skills?
What is one to talk about?
What are two to talk about?
What are many to talk of?
What might it be important to talk about?
How long might our numbers and letters remain important?
How might our attitude toward current media obliterate literature?
What would you like the nature of our education and culture to be?
What happenings most effect our ability to communicate?

Parents are Citizens

Parents and citizens of our republic are the ones who are responsible for education in our republic. Parents and citizens need to dialogue to decide what eduction is to be like with us. Then parents and citizens most organize to decide how we will deliver that education. Professionals take their orders from us.

Who leads in a republic. Who has that privilege and responsibility.

Parents:

Now that you have abdicated the personal teaching of your children and now that you have abdicated responsibility for your local school board how do you expect your children to be educated?????????????????????????????

Food Handlers

Food handlers, at Copper Mountain College in the Greater Morongo Basin of eastern San Bernardino College, need and deserve better ongoing teaching and training in their profession.