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- TV show prompts me to look more critcally at self-help industry: Given the fact that the so-called “self-help industry,” or “self-help movement” is a multibillion dollar industry, I wonder that I’ve lived so many years without paying it much attention. I [...]
- Sometimes libraries face financial ‘holds,’ whether they like it or not: We had local elections in my neck of the woods last Tuesday, and many folks in a county adjacent to ours were stunned that voters rejected an increase in property [...]
- How do you ‘inform’ voters when they don’t care to listen?: It’s very possible that C-SPAN and such important, impartial media outlets just might be the best sleep aid on cable. Next to the billions of incarnations of crime show reruns, [...]
- Parents: Beware of school related scams: I saw a television newscast last evening about a phone scam that played upon some parents’ desires to help their students score high on college entrance exams. In this case, [...]
- New school year probably means doing some moving: Ah, the joys of each new school year in America. I remember them well, both as a student and as a parent of students, and none of those memories move [...]
- Hmmm. I LOVE the smell of fresh textbooks in the morning: I offer that post title with apologies to all of you who are “Apocalypse Now” fans. I just couldn’t resist pirating that famous napalm line and spoiling it with textbooks [...]
- Should ‘No Child Left Behind’ continue as law of the land?: President Bush called today for renewal of his “No Child Left Behind” federal education law. As a writer and a former teacher, I’m all in favor of education, literacy, and [...]