Tony M

Tony M
Location
Punta Gorda, Florida,
Birthday
August 23
Bio
Old, over-educated and restlessly retired, I still teach a little when I can. Interests are eclectic, old acoustic blues, math, politics, woodworking and philosophy. Still a "Chicago Italian" after all these years! In this lifetime, I have held every political position from leftwing anarchy (left of Marx) to rightwing anarchy (right of the old Birchers who called Goldwater a pinko) and have now for some time resided as squarely in the political middle as possible.

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Salon.com
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 3:06PM

Define Lagging Behind

There are only a few fundamental questions for which this question could be a proxy. a couple of which are:

How do we make our schools into (intellectual)  growth factories that produce a very consistent product (graduates)?

This is the model of the old public schools in America.  It is als… Read full post »