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Archive for February, 2007

More community colleges offering four-year degrees

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

From the State of Washington down to Florida, more community colleges are offering 4-year degrees.  This trend is a result of matching the needs of the workforce with people trained in practical fields like nursing, hotel management, and so on.  Not too many Victorian Literature majors here.  Whereas in the past, lots of ‘professions’ i.e., […]

Go Neil! Polio, textbooks, and education

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Neil Postman said this in The End of Education, published around 1995, but he said it about twenty years before. He didn’t think anyone would listen. He was correct. Do you know the last line of Don McLean’s great song Starry Starry Night? We can also improve the quality of teaching and learning overnight […]

In Maryland, too many English teachers; too few ESOL teachers?

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

That’s what a Maryland Department of Education report states that was published late in 2006.  It seems that a call for English teachers yielded about a 150% response from qualified candidated, BUT the State cannot find enough qualified ESOL teachers.  One could argue the reasons, but it’s plain to see even in this era of a […]