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Education vs. Schooling; crusade for the mind

http://educationvsschooling.blogspot.com/

This website is dedicated to fighting the current established educational system of which I am employed. Hopefully the ideas presented here by myself and by others will be a catalyst for change to allow for schools to return to the purpose of education.

• Added on: Apr 21st, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Coach Kays
• Listed in: Education & Learning Secondary Education
• Tags: education school Students teaching teachers reform

Recent Posts

• What to do when a student get seriously hurt....

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 00:20 in education, school, Students, fundraiser, teaching, high school, teacher, benefit, grades, secondary school

  There are certain parts of teaching that we never really seriously think about when taking the job...pay, stress, work load, etc.... But there is one thing that teachers, new and old, never ever ponder, nor do they ever want to, even if based on the ...

• Student expectations vs. Teacher Expectations...

  Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 19:31 in education, school, teaching, high school, teacher, secondary school

  Another teacher came to me to day and told me that a student in her class paid me a compliment. She informed me that this student enjoyed my class because the expectations I placed upon her. That I my expectation was that the students would be challe...

• Creativity...the unteaching of our youth

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 23:55 in education, drawing, school, Students, teaching, high school, arts, creativity, Dance, administration, teacher, revolution

  A children are born creative, that is demonstrated over and over again by their curiosity, their ability to imagine a new game, or to just create something new. It amazes me everyday the creativity that children exude. I heard a story once a while ba...

• Renewed Vigor

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 00:36 in education, school, Students, teaching, philosophy, high school, teacher, return

  After spending the majority of the summer trying to forget my last school year and concentrate on coaching I have returned to blogging about education. I have now returned to a private school that I taught at in years past, and picked up Physics, AP ...

• grading....

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 16:09 in Students, teaching, high school, teacher, instruction, graduation, grades

  Throughout our educational careers we have been judged and evaluated and in the United states a letter grade has been attached to our perceived performance. This system has been in place since roughly 1792, when a Cambridge tutor believed that st...

• Out of commission

  Posted on Thursday May 15th, 2008 at 19:40

  I recently posted about school violence, or the small riot that we had on my campus. As a result of this incident I have been placed out of school on disability for the remainder of the year. It is disappointing that something like this has happened ...

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Annie

To the teacher who speaks his mind!

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