Teacher's Desk  

Delma Blinson tells it the way he sees it.

Tenure, or whatever you want to call it, is necessary and essential until we reform the way school boards operate in this state.
One of the topics in Legal Reasoning was "Fallacies." I introduced it by defining a fallacy as a conclusion that while often supported by competent evidence/facts was nonetheless either untrue or contrary to the evidence/facts.
I hesitated to report this but after a second thought decided to do so simply because it is one of the most debated issues in education. Homework, that is.
Beaufort County Schools has recently announced the creation of a new "hotline" to report bullying.
A long awaited major study of the effects of school choice has now been published. You can read about it by clicking here. The study was essentially a review of the literature on hundreds of research projects looking at various issues related to school choice.
In that piece I shared a new report that detailed the changes in modern college and university curricula away from required foundational courses more toward a smorgasbord that ignores the classics of the liberal arts curriculum.
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