Being creative takes time.
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Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country.
in New Mexico http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/final/SB0427.pdf
Years from Now
Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-off place
I hear you laughing —and I smile.
Shel Silverstein
The dedication of Shel’s new book of poems published by Harper-Collins grabbed me. The simplicity and elegance of his line drawings makes drawing look so simple putting a pen to paper or a stylus to a tablet. What I found creative about looking at the Harper-Collins webpage was that it also included classroom activities. Activity guide was created by Sue Ornstein, a first-grade teacher in the Byram Hills School District in Armonk, New York.
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ALEX TABARROK, a George Mason economist and blogger at Marginal Revolution, notes that though many more young Americans, about 50% more, now go to college than did 25 years ago, the number of students studying science, engineering, technology, or mathematics has not increased. So, Mr Tabarrok asks, “If students aren’t studying science, technology, engineering and math, what are they studying?” They are studying interesting and enjoyable fields, it turns out. Mr Tabarrok reports, with no little dread:
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