Monday, December 10, 2007

Who is he?

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Is anyone else as curious as I am about the identity of the hard working cop that's been featured in the Tennessean's renewed covera...

The Church of Oprah

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30,000 people came to see Oprah this weekend. I can only shake my head in amazement. Frankly, I don't like the persona that is "O...
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Sunday, December 09, 2007

Votes that haunt

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But after Metro failed to meet No Child Left Behind requirements for four years in a row — one of the first two Tennessee districts to do so...

Homeschooled Heisman winner

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Homeschoolers across the nation are celebrating with University of Florida fans over the awarding of this year's Heisman Trophy . Florid...
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Not a gun free zone

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Before heading off to church Sunday morning I read the shocking news that there had been a shooting at the YWAM campus in Colorado. Later in...
Friday, December 07, 2007

Professional pay

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Principal Pay The Center for American Progress released a report this week on reforming principal compensation , while the National Associat...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Rezoning fears

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If, like me you were unable to attend last evening's public meeting with the MNPS BOE at East Literature you're going to have to rea...
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The View of Ron Paul

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I don't have time or the desire to watch the women on The View but I had to watch their interview with Ron Paul via a link from Lucianne...
Monday, December 03, 2007

Touching base

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I've not disappeared. It's just been a tremendously busy week or so with rehearsals for the Christmas program at church, decorating ...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Paying to get the job done

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From Dr. Martin Kennedy 's editorial in the 10/7/07 edition of the Tennessean : When considering how best to improve educational outcome...
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Hang on to this quote

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The context for the quote below, which is just too good that I don't want it overlooked, is the TEA's (Tennessee Education Associati...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Highly qualified database

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The Tennessean provides us with a database of highly qualified teachers that may have been overlooked in the sidebar of their "Federal...
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Hubris

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Educating children is the most important thing a city can do. Teaching is as life saving as cardiovascular surgery. The first statement was,...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

We were not patient enough

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There are moments like this IPS (induced pluripotent stem cells) discovery today when my faith it in science is renewed. Researchers in Wisc...

Hillary is pro-uniforms

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In comments to Iowa teachers recently: [Hillary Rodham Clinton] supports implementing a school uniform policy so students, particularly girl...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

B is the new N

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AC at Volunteer Voters links to a short video of a woman asking John McCain about Hillary Clinton. "How do we beat the b****?" s...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Fundamental duh

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Isn't this what the majority of Metro parents and taxpayers expected from MNPS all along? Nashville’s public school district may soon ...

It's Your Job

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As we become more and more dependent upon the Nanny State it's inevitable that someone has to push back and tell parents what THEIR job ...
Monday, November 12, 2007

Good for them

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The 451 MNPS students who took the SAT and boosted the MNPS average higher certainly deserve some credit, but it's not them, it's MN...
Friday, November 09, 2007

How has this been demonstrated?

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We are also fortunate to have a mayor who considers this issue a top priority. Karl Dean made the reduction of our dropout rate a pivotal is...
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