"Special Schools for Homeless Students Bursting at the Seams" This article grabbed me because of course we need to educate our homeless students. I think we need to accommodate this population as well as the rest of the student population. It is ridiculous that our country with it's tremendous resources can't afford to educate all of our students. Of course we have plenty if money to throw away in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Monarch School Program in San Diego is doing a good job of meeting the needs of these kids. It looks this kind of model that includes a health clinic would be great if it were used to include all Tittle I schools. We as a society need to change our priorities to taking care of our own people instead spending our money on useless wars overseas.
"More Argument, Fewer Standards" I like this idea! Dialogue, discussion, argument, questioning, debate are all wonderful tools for stretching the mind. This is dynamic thinking at work, instead of the static thinking of remembering facts. We spend so much of our time trying to fill our students minds with facts--many of which they will forget anyway, instead of challenging them to think and acquire facts for a purpose--like supporting and argument. However as long as we continue to "teach to the test" because that's what we have to do to survive in the current "No Child Left Behind" climate we are not going to have the time to do this.
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