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Best Teacher of the Century Award: Your Mom and Dad First, remember back to when you were but a wee one, maybe four or five years old. Or better yet, take a look at your four or five year old. What do you see? A copy machine, right? As you drive in the car, walk through the park, go on excursions... ( added 1 day 21 hours ago.)

Why Jay Leno is Not Funny: My Late Night List Best to Worst OK, let's get right to the list of late night hosts, network and cable, and their order of funny or what makes a good late night talk show host: Craig Ferguson Conan O'brien David Letterman Stephen Colbert John Stewart Jimmy... ( added 2 days 14 hours ago.)

Act to Help Children Read Gooder: Where Are We With the No Child Left Behind Law? In 2001 the George H. W. Bush "No Child Left Behind" bill became law. If you've forgotten what it required, here's a little refresher. Schools which receive Title I funding through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 must make... ( added 5 days 16 hours ago.)

Its a Lie: Education Industry Says College Degree Leads to Social, Economic Privilege Joe Kellum, who majored in law, knows that those who are sucked into the education dream soon find it turning into a financial nightmare. Because of the expense, he couldn't pay the $36,000 annual cost of attending the University of Virginia with... ( added 12 days ago.)

Sorry Folks, Education is Not Institutional But Rather Individual Certainly, for a child or youth, what to learn and how it is be taught should be left up to the adult, the child being too inexperienced and young to know better. But if a child is to learn, spending at least the required twelve years in... ( added 17 days 18 hours ago.)

Education Reform: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Missing One of the main issues regarding education reform is the extent of what that really means. In order to understand the full thrust of the problem, one has to understand the playing field first and foremost. The term "No child left behind" is... ( added 24 days ago.)

What Your Child's Teacher Won't Tell You Concerned about your child's education? Why not get some solutions from the horse's mouth? Teachers . . . If you listen without judgment and with your child's best interest in mind, they can tell you a lot. And remember, they are not the enemy.... ( added 30 days 1 hour ago.)

No Amount of Education Reform Addresses Deeper Issues A point to consider when talking education reform is that to the greatest degree it comes down to money. There are over 15,000 individually run school districts. Some rich. Some poor. And others in-between. Those districts of the well-to-do... ( added 33 days ago.)

Focus and Vision: My Odyssey Toward Confronting Education Reform Why this article? One, to cite an example of how focus and vision (planning and its modification via continued experience) are critical in my plight as well as all who desire to achieve. Two, to cite the specifics of how this is accomplished. ... ( added 39 days 20 hours ago.)

How to Succeed: Ignore the Majority and Do the Unexpected If someone is successful, she is often asked "How'd you do it? Did you take classes? Get a certificate? Degree?" And when you tell them "No, I self-appointed myself" or did it on your own, most can't believe you were able to do so without getting... ( added 46 days 17 hours ago.)

"As Teacher, I Merely Encourage, Package & Summarize Knowledge; Students Do the Other 95%" I once had a student tell me that she really liked my teaching style that it was very informative, entertaining, and engaging; however, she said, "You really didn't teach us how to write." I responded by saying, "95% of it is your job. As... ( added 52 days 19 hours ago.)

Dear Mayor Villaraigosa, Our Schools Are In a Mess and I'd Like to Help High school graduation rates in certain states, like California, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and ten others hovers around 50%. That's close to a third of the U.S. At the top are states that graduate 80%, but most of those states don't even have 1... ( added 58 days 14 hours ago.)

College Tips to Help Save Time, Money, & Aggravation: Success In college, very rarely is success spoken to. Students gain knowledge and insight into theory, but little is given them in the way of dealing with some of life's biggest concerns: problem solving and critical thinking on a practical day to day... ( added 66 days 21 hours ago.)

Twitter is a Totally Different and Refreshing Experience I actually stole that line (the title) from Marlon Sanders, a Twitter user who wrote "Marlon Sander's 21-Step Cheat Sheet to Profiting from Twitter." In the article, he speaks to meeting people who can promote your product or business for free... ( added 77 days ago.)

College Tips to Help Save Time, Money, Aggravation, and Your Sanity: Career Let's begin with what you're all shooting for in the first place (I hope): Career satisfaction and success In college, generally one thing is acquired: knowledge. Very rarely will you learn the critical skills and attitudes needed for success... ( added 81 days 17 hours ago.)

You May Not Care About Your Success But the Rest of the World Does Some say that distraction is the tool of the devil or that which gets us off track from doing great things in our lives not only for ourselves but for others. Now some may not believe in the devil and some may believe that they are happy and... ( added 85 days 15 hours ago.)

Why is College for Most Just a Crap Shoot As I've mentioned several times before, within 5 to 10 years 70% of students no longer work in a field related to their major, a stat no one's talking about. (One of the many reasons I get so miffed at the myth that education is the end-all and... ( added 87 days 22 hours ago.)

Colleges Have Their Own Best Interest in Mind Not Your Child's What exactly does "colleges" mean? Here we're not talking about faculty or staff but those who make the decisions. They are trustees (board members) and presidents. And this is a problem. Why? Because they do not live lives similar to that of... ( added 92 days 20 hours ago.)

Want to Lead? Learn from the Master, Kung Ming: Assests & Liabilities, Codes & Rules The Five Assets and Eight Liabilities of a Leader Five Assets: 1- He possesses a majestic air and ability to motivate others. 2- He respects his elders and is benevolent to his brothers. 3 He is faithful and loyal to his friends. 4- He is tolerant... ( added 100 days ago.)

Want to Lead? Learn from the Master, Kung Ming: Types, Flaws, Essential Abilities Six Different Types of Leaders 1. The compassionate leader: He guides his troops with a virtuous heart and supervises them with strict standards. He knows his troop's difficulties and appreciates their devotion. 2. The virtuous leader: He who does... ( added 100 days ago.)

Want to Lead? Learn from the Master, Kung Ming: Power and Responsibility Power and Responsibility are the two faces that share one physical body and they cannot be separated. A leader who is the central power of a nation must at the same time be fully responsible for the success and failure of that nation. Power is the... ( added 100 days ago.)

Foreclosure and You: How Writers Teach Us to Follow Our Dreams It appears that in order to teach us, writers use vehicles that are extreme. Here the vehicle used to teach us the lesson of hope is foreclosure. The losing of property, a home is a metaphor for losing the American dream. Of course, we have all... ( added 102 days 21 hours ago.)

Life: Find Your Path and Stick to It First, as I've stated before, you need to spend the time reflecting on your strengths: innate talents, abilities, gifts, and desires. After a long period of reflecting, writing and trial and error, you will find what you came here to this life to... ( added 103 days 4 hours ago.)

Do Death and Mayhem Have Purpose? The universe is a tough task master. As we attempt to avoid pain and embrace pleasure at every turn, the universe unrelentingly won't leave us alone inflicting inevitable pain on all. And if you have not suffered, over a lifetime the amount will... ( added 107 days 2 hours ago.)

What Is Your College Student's Focus?: MySpace, Email, Texting, and Computer Games Back in the day when I was a big-college-professor on campus, as I walked through the basement computer lab of a particular college library week after week, semester after semester, year after year, on the way to teach, I noticed one thing, that... ( added 108 days 23 hours ago.)