Posts Tagged ‘schools’


MA Schools Considers Restraining Students

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

“With a surge in the number of students with behavioral issues, and a teacher corps that is on edge because of increasing school violence, the question of whether and how to physically restrain students has become the subject of growing controversy in Massachusetts and will be the subject of a hearing in Congress in coming weeks.”

Continue reading this article in the Boston Globe here

Detroit’s Abandoned Schools: Pictures of Plight

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Below is a link to the work of James D. Griffioen. He has spent the last year of his life documenting what has happened to the city of Detroit.

Click Here to view his incredible photography.

John Dewey’s Many Definitions of Democracy

Friday, March 27th, 2009

1. A political system, involving such institutions as “universal suffrage, recurring elections, responsibility of those who are in political power to the voters…”
2. Government by the consent of the governed.
3. An educational process.
4. An educational principle.
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