Frederick Douglass shows that the better educated someone is the more the idea of slavery of any kind becomes abhorrent

This is why the slave owners – particularly those in the southern states did all they could to prevent their "goods" even learning how to read and write and placed all sorts of obstacles in the way of true equality for all men (which after all is part of the founding fathers aims and 230 years on is still not fully achieved)

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my info says he is already fired. his contract isn't out until 2010 or 2011. How much is it going to cost the state to get rid of him. Over 4 million?? That little piece of change would buy lots of educational supplies…

I grew up in North Beach just a few blocks from Fisherman's Wharf. My grandparents were immigrants from Italy. My grandfather was a fisherman for many years off the coast and he would go also to Alaska for crab seasonally. My smells are naturally fishy. When I the smell sea air, the tide or seaweed, I think of home.

Also the smell of polished wood. Our school and church was (is still) an old building rife with wooden pews, classroom furniture and and the nuns kept it shiny and spotless. I wonder if they still do. I don't think there are enough nuns left. That place is huge.

Lastly, fermented grapes – because we had a huge oak barrel that my grandfather used to make wine in the garage, if you could call it wine. It was more like grapa. That barrel stuck up the whole garage area, so when I went outside in back, that smell was always there.

Those are just the ones that come to mind immediately.

Thanks for that. It was a nice trip back.

New Seed International (NSI). NSI is founded in 1996 and legally registered as a
Children and health development focus non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization under Ghana Registrars General Department company code Act 176 in the year 1998 with registration number G7563.
Strategically, NSI has identified itself with improving the living status of the poor, socio-economically marginalized children with specifically focus
on children infected and affected with HIV/AIDS. In the past 8 years New Seed International has dedicated 86% of its time in providing Home Based Care service for over 600 HIV/AIDS infected and affected children and their care givers in the Volta Region of Ghana.
Currently, with financial support from Solace International, an USA based NGO, 7 unit class rooms is built to provide early childhood education for over 300 identified orphans and vulnerable children within Ho Municipality of Volta Region. Currently, New Seed International has 157 orphans and vulnerable children caring for their food, medication, cloth and shelter.
As community based organization inadequate feeding and medication is causing most of the children malnutrition and need urgent help to save the lives of these wonderful children.
At our educational sector we have very few teaching and learning materials a situation which is making teaching and learning very difficult I therefore wish to seek you project partnership, material and logistic support to enable us bring joy, peace and smile into the face of these children.

I wish to inquire and humbly appeal to organizations to come to our aid in providing either the classroom furniture, teaching and learning materials to help us bring hope, joy and smile into the faces of these unfortunate and innocent children in this part of the world.

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I am a college professor, born in England but living and working in the USA, at Emory University in Atlanta. I was commissioned to write the article for the _Chronicle of Higher Education_, whose main readership is college professors and administrators. They were the people I had in mind as my audience, but I always try to write as clearly as possible, so that all readers can understand what I have to say. I believe high school students and undergraduates should think about the issue rather than assume that the system we have is somehow necessarily the right one. It's a question about which reasonable people can (and do) disagree.

Patrick Allitt

hey there,

I liked the fact that you mentioned the time-consuming preparation of lessons which are nm-supported. As we found out during the trip, the teacher has to find a really exciting taks to activate all students.
Additionally, it was good that again we got the confirmation that a good learning environment has a positive impact on the learner. I'm of the opinion that school should rather get a 2nd home character (e.g., liker in Finland) in order to enrich the respect for classroom's furniture and technical items such as computers, whiteboards, …

Interesting questions,
see you soon,
Marthe

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Yes, it can. However, I feel that too many laws and too many social issue are getting in the way of teaching.

Unfortunately, schools don't solely teach anymore. Teachers have to deal with a lot of social issues that kids are facing. Everything from poverty, abuse, drugs, divorce, sexual abuse, bullying, health issues, etc. You name it, schools are dealing with it.

Teachers are now counselors, nurses, psychologists, etc. In the past, a student sat in a classroom and the teacher taught. Anything other "issues" were not spoken about.

Also, we now have laws such as "No Child Left Behind" which are hindering the educational process and widening the achievement gap.

There are quality public schools, but they are in towns were the average household income is more then 90K a year. They are not in working class or lower class areas. Those places don't have the resources to deal with all the social issues and all the academic issues.

Also, parents are becoming less and less accountable for their children's academics. Somewhere, parents started to believe that teachers and schools are solely responsible for their child's academic success. This is completely untrue. Parents need to be actively involved in order to make their child's educational process successful, productive and long-lasting.

Yes, quality education and public schools can happen. Schools, teachers, parents and the government need to start working together to make positive changes.

Teachers are only a small part of education. There are many other individuals who contribute (or don't contribute) to quality education.

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Kim- I'm really enjoying reading your blog!! I wish I had time to read all of those education articles… SUMMER- 17 days! I'd love to hear other articles like that which you have found helpful- I know there are tons, but again, limited time to find the good ones!

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> Have you looked at the proposed budget for 07-08? Total Expenditures are $117MM, Total Education is $70MM. And $142K is now going to the superintendent, who was just voted a 3.5% raise by BOE. I don't know about you, but I don't make that kind of $$. And doubt many in Enfield do. And how much more of the budget is going to the unionized teachers and staff? The majority of the ed budget goes to salaries. Not to books, computers, not to classroom furniture or maintaining existing structures and fields.You'd need how many new 55+ units just to compensate for education salaries?? I say cut these salaries and find more industries to shoulder the tax burden. And vote out those on current BOE. Enough of this taxing the little guys to death.]]>

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