Former American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker made teachers’ unions what they are today. He was hard-nosed defender of teachers’ rights, but he also came clean about public school performance.
In the making of “Kids Aren’t Cars,” I unearthed a 25-year old PBS interview with Shanker. His indictment of the public education system was stunning.
“You could do things that are absolutely wrong, you can have huge dropout rates, you can have kids who are leaving without knowing how to read, write, count or anything else and what do you do next year? Do the same as you did this year and the following year and the following year…”
And when Shanker – again, 25 years ago – rattled off achievement statistics, the host challenged him:
Shanker: When it comes to the highest levels of reading, writing, mathematics or science – that just means being able to read editorials in the New York Times…or write an essay of a few pages…or do a mathematical equation, not calculus…the number of kids who are about to graduate who are able to function at that level, depending on whether you’re talking about reading, writing, math science – 3 percent, 4 percent…
Host: Oh, come on!
Shanker: No! 5 percent. That’s it.
Does anyone honestly believe our education system – which has had billions of dollars more each year dumped into – is better now than it was in 1986?
Anyone??
Shanker was straight with the public – even if he didn’t see teacher quality and accountability as part of the solution.
If only current AFT President Randi Weingarten and National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel would be as candid. But I’m not holding my breath. The AFT and the NEA have presided over the decline of public education in America, and they know it. But if the union leaders admit to that, well, it would undermine their call for ever greater levels of “investment.”
But in the wake of “Waiting for Superman,” Weingarten and Van Roekel are acquiescing to the public outcry for accountability, and taking rhetorical baby steps toward reform, such as maybe one day making student achievement a tiny sliver of a teacher’s overall performance evaluation. Maybe.
The teacher unions are walking contradictions. They portray themselves as experts in education policy, but somehow never manage to deliver the goods. They claim to elevate the teaching profession, yet bend over backward to defend the worst among them, including a Michigan teacher deemed to be a danger to herself and others.
The sad truth is that the AFT and the NEA have an agenda that revolves around accumulating as much money and power as possible for themselves and their political surrogates. The teacher unions are a collection of far-left progressives who use the honored title of “teacher” to conceal their radical political agenda. How else to explain why the Rhode Island chapter of the NEA would participate in a rally for same-sex marriage? What does that possibly have to do with education?
Back to Shanker. Even though he ardently defended teachers, he was genuinely concerned about the quality of education being given to America’s school children. Can the same be said of Randi Weingarten and Dennis Van Roekel?
Consider this quote from social writer and philosopher Eric Hoffer and decide for yourself: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what you can learn from the opposite sex when it comes to investing. As with most things, men and women have different strengths when managing a portfolio.
This week, I'm taking it a step further: I'm going to show you what you can learn from your kids. Yes, your kids. Or your nieces and nephews, if you don't have kids of your own.
Children have an interesting perspective about investing: They can really bring you back down to earth and help you recover common sense (because, let's face it, money -- and, specifically, the prospect of making more money -- really makes us kind of lose it, a little bit).
So, here are five lessons you can take from the little ones in your life:
1. Buy Low. Logically, you know this rule. You'd never wait for the price of those shoes to go up. But for whatever reason, people tend to lose sight of this when investing.
"If you go back to March of 2009, stocks had a half-price sale, and kids will tell you that it's better buy something when it's on sale, when prices are low rather than high," says Allan Roth, a certified financial planner and author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn. "But we were panicking in the streets, selling. Now that the markets have recovered, finally many people have started moving back into the stock market."
Ideally, of course, you want to do the opposite: Buy low, and sell high.
2. Diversify. Your kids probably know the saying as well as you do: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. For them, it might apply more to the mall than the stock market, but the key lesson remains the same. If you aren't spreading your investments out, or worse, your portfolio is too heavy in your employer's stock, you're asking for trouble.
Many people don't think about it this way, but your job is, essentially, one of your investments, and certainly the one with the highest return. If your company goes down -- and history shows us that's always a possibility -- you don't want the lion's share of your investments to go with it. Keep company stock to 5% or 10% of your portfolio, at the most.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
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Former American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker made teachers’ unions what they are today. He was hard-nosed defender of teachers’ rights, but he also came clean about public school performance.
In the making of “Kids Aren’t Cars,” I unearthed a 25-year old PBS interview with Shanker. His indictment of the public education system was stunning.
“You could do things that are absolutely wrong, you can have huge dropout rates, you can have kids who are leaving without knowing how to read, write, count or anything else and what do you do next year? Do the same as you did this year and the following year and the following year…”
And when Shanker – again, 25 years ago – rattled off achievement statistics, the host challenged him:
Shanker: When it comes to the highest levels of reading, writing, mathematics or science – that just means being able to read editorials in the New York Times…or write an essay of a few pages…or do a mathematical equation, not calculus…the number of kids who are about to graduate who are able to function at that level, depending on whether you’re talking about reading, writing, math science – 3 percent, 4 percent…
Host: Oh, come on!
Shanker: No! 5 percent. That’s it.
Does anyone honestly believe our education system – which has had billions of dollars more each year dumped into – is better now than it was in 1986?
Anyone??
Shanker was straight with the public – even if he didn’t see teacher quality and accountability as part of the solution.
If only current AFT President Randi Weingarten and National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel would be as candid. But I’m not holding my breath. The AFT and the NEA have presided over the decline of public education in America, and they know it. But if the union leaders admit to that, well, it would undermine their call for ever greater levels of “investment.”
But in the wake of “Waiting for Superman,” Weingarten and Van Roekel are acquiescing to the public outcry for accountability, and taking rhetorical baby steps toward reform, such as maybe one day making student achievement a tiny sliver of a teacher’s overall performance evaluation. Maybe.
The teacher unions are walking contradictions. They portray themselves as experts in education policy, but somehow never manage to deliver the goods. They claim to elevate the teaching profession, yet bend over backward to defend the worst among them, including a Michigan teacher deemed to be a danger to herself and others.
The sad truth is that the AFT and the NEA have an agenda that revolves around accumulating as much money and power as possible for themselves and their political surrogates. The teacher unions are a collection of far-left progressives who use the honored title of “teacher” to conceal their radical political agenda. How else to explain why the Rhode Island chapter of the NEA would participate in a rally for same-sex marriage? What does that possibly have to do with education?
Back to Shanker. Even though he ardently defended teachers, he was genuinely concerned about the quality of education being given to America’s school children. Can the same be said of Randi Weingarten and Dennis Van Roekel?
Consider this quote from social writer and philosopher Eric Hoffer and decide for yourself: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what you can learn from the opposite sex when it comes to investing. As with most things, men and women have different strengths when managing a portfolio.
This week, I'm taking it a step further: I'm going to show you what you can learn from your kids. Yes, your kids. Or your nieces and nephews, if you don't have kids of your own.
Children have an interesting perspective about investing: They can really bring you back down to earth and help you recover common sense (because, let's face it, money -- and, specifically, the prospect of making more money -- really makes us kind of lose it, a little bit).
So, here are five lessons you can take from the little ones in your life:
1. Buy Low. Logically, you know this rule. You'd never wait for the price of those shoes to go up. But for whatever reason, people tend to lose sight of this when investing.
"If you go back to March of 2009, stocks had a half-price sale, and kids will tell you that it's better buy something when it's on sale, when prices are low rather than high," says Allan Roth, a certified financial planner and author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn. "But we were panicking in the streets, selling. Now that the markets have recovered, finally many people have started moving back into the stock market."
Ideally, of course, you want to do the opposite: Buy low, and sell high.
2. Diversify. Your kids probably know the saying as well as you do: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. For them, it might apply more to the mall than the stock market, but the key lesson remains the same. If you aren't spreading your investments out, or worse, your portfolio is too heavy in your employer's stock, you're asking for trouble.
Many people don't think about it this way, but your job is, essentially, one of your investments, and certainly the one with the highest return. If your company goes down -- and history shows us that's always a possibility -- you don't want the lion's share of your investments to go with it. Keep company stock to 5% or 10% of your portfolio, at the most.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
Fox <b>News</b> Suggests Bulletstorm Is “Worst Video Game In The World”
The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the violence in games stone. The issue ...
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: Digital <b>...</b>
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: CP+ 2011: Sigma has announced that it intends to make lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount (NEX) system cameras. In a brief statement on its website the company says that ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
Fox <b>News</b> Suggests Bulletstorm Is “Worst Video Game In The World”
The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the violence in games stone. The issue ...
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: Digital <b>...</b>
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: CP+ 2011: Sigma has announced that it intends to make lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount (NEX) system cameras. In a brief statement on its website the company says that ...
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Former American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker made teachers’ unions what they are today. He was hard-nosed defender of teachers’ rights, but he also came clean about public school performance.
In the making of “Kids Aren’t Cars,” I unearthed a 25-year old PBS interview with Shanker. His indictment of the public education system was stunning.
“You could do things that are absolutely wrong, you can have huge dropout rates, you can have kids who are leaving without knowing how to read, write, count or anything else and what do you do next year? Do the same as you did this year and the following year and the following year…”
And when Shanker – again, 25 years ago – rattled off achievement statistics, the host challenged him:
Shanker: When it comes to the highest levels of reading, writing, mathematics or science – that just means being able to read editorials in the New York Times…or write an essay of a few pages…or do a mathematical equation, not calculus…the number of kids who are about to graduate who are able to function at that level, depending on whether you’re talking about reading, writing, math science – 3 percent, 4 percent…
Host: Oh, come on!
Shanker: No! 5 percent. That’s it.
Does anyone honestly believe our education system – which has had billions of dollars more each year dumped into – is better now than it was in 1986?
Anyone??
Shanker was straight with the public – even if he didn’t see teacher quality and accountability as part of the solution.
If only current AFT President Randi Weingarten and National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel would be as candid. But I’m not holding my breath. The AFT and the NEA have presided over the decline of public education in America, and they know it. But if the union leaders admit to that, well, it would undermine their call for ever greater levels of “investment.”
But in the wake of “Waiting for Superman,” Weingarten and Van Roekel are acquiescing to the public outcry for accountability, and taking rhetorical baby steps toward reform, such as maybe one day making student achievement a tiny sliver of a teacher’s overall performance evaluation. Maybe.
The teacher unions are walking contradictions. They portray themselves as experts in education policy, but somehow never manage to deliver the goods. They claim to elevate the teaching profession, yet bend over backward to defend the worst among them, including a Michigan teacher deemed to be a danger to herself and others.
The sad truth is that the AFT and the NEA have an agenda that revolves around accumulating as much money and power as possible for themselves and their political surrogates. The teacher unions are a collection of far-left progressives who use the honored title of “teacher” to conceal their radical political agenda. How else to explain why the Rhode Island chapter of the NEA would participate in a rally for same-sex marriage? What does that possibly have to do with education?
Back to Shanker. Even though he ardently defended teachers, he was genuinely concerned about the quality of education being given to America’s school children. Can the same be said of Randi Weingarten and Dennis Van Roekel?
Consider this quote from social writer and philosopher Eric Hoffer and decide for yourself: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what you can learn from the opposite sex when it comes to investing. As with most things, men and women have different strengths when managing a portfolio.
This week, I'm taking it a step further: I'm going to show you what you can learn from your kids. Yes, your kids. Or your nieces and nephews, if you don't have kids of your own.
Children have an interesting perspective about investing: They can really bring you back down to earth and help you recover common sense (because, let's face it, money -- and, specifically, the prospect of making more money -- really makes us kind of lose it, a little bit).
So, here are five lessons you can take from the little ones in your life:
1. Buy Low. Logically, you know this rule. You'd never wait for the price of those shoes to go up. But for whatever reason, people tend to lose sight of this when investing.
"If you go back to March of 2009, stocks had a half-price sale, and kids will tell you that it's better buy something when it's on sale, when prices are low rather than high," says Allan Roth, a certified financial planner and author of How a Second Grader Beats Wall Street: Golden Rules Any Investor Can Learn. "But we were panicking in the streets, selling. Now that the markets have recovered, finally many people have started moving back into the stock market."
Ideally, of course, you want to do the opposite: Buy low, and sell high.
2. Diversify. Your kids probably know the saying as well as you do: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. For them, it might apply more to the mall than the stock market, but the key lesson remains the same. If you aren't spreading your investments out, or worse, your portfolio is too heavy in your employer's stock, you're asking for trouble.
Many people don't think about it this way, but your job is, essentially, one of your investments, and certainly the one with the highest return. If your company goes down -- and history shows us that's always a possibility -- you don't want the lion's share of your investments to go with it. Keep company stock to 5% or 10% of your portfolio, at the most.
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
Fox <b>News</b> Suggests Bulletstorm Is “Worst Video Game In The World”
The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the violence in games stone. The issue ...
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: Digital <b>...</b>
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: CP+ 2011: Sigma has announced that it intends to make lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount (NEX) system cameras. In a brief statement on its website the company says that ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
Fox <b>News</b> Suggests Bulletstorm Is “Worst Video Game In The World”
The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the violence in games stone. The issue ...
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: Digital <b>...</b>
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: CP+ 2011: Sigma has announced that it intends to make lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount (NEX) system cameras. In a brief statement on its website the company says that ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
Fox <b>News</b> Suggests Bulletstorm Is “Worst Video Game In The World”
The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the violence in games stone. The issue ...
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: Digital <b>...</b>
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: CP+ 2011: Sigma has announced that it intends to make lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount (NEX) system cameras. In a brief statement on its website the company says that ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
Fox <b>News</b> Suggests Bulletstorm Is “Worst Video Game In The World”
The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the violence in games stone. The issue ...
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: Digital <b>...</b>
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: CP+ 2011: Sigma has announced that it intends to make lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount (NEX) system cameras. In a brief statement on its website the company says that ...
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Arrowheadlines: Chiefs <b>News</b> 2/9 - Arrowhead Pride
Good morning Chiefs fans! A thank you to Joel and Chris for covering for me. Technology seems to hate me lately. Today's Kansas City Chiefs news covers a lot of topics: the national anthem, racial bias, Super Bowl odds, and pork. Enjoy.
Fox <b>News</b> Suggests Bulletstorm Is “Worst Video Game In The World”
The ever-incisive Fox News has decided today to try to squeeze a little more blood from the violence in games stone. The issue ...
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: Digital <b>...</b>
Sigma to make lenses for NEX and Micro Four Thirds: CP+ 2011: Sigma has announced that it intends to make lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony E-mount (NEX) system cameras. In a brief statement on its website the company says that ...
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A couple of months ago, back in July, I came across a blog of a stay at home mom who is making money online. I was fascinated with all the ways you can make money online and knew I had to take advantage of it. My mission was to make money online to pay off our debt. I am a stay at home mom of 2 children, happily married - but with a lot of debt. My husband and I want to buy a house for our family but the debt was standing in the way. We were already squeezing as much money out of my husband's income as we possibly could, but we needed something more. That's when I decided once and for all, that I was going to utilize the internet and make money to pay off this debt! Here I will tell you how I am getting out of debt by making money online.
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