[cripplecreek]

We Are One Teacher's toolkit being given to college and high school teachers.

Teachers Toolkit (pdf)

It includes this handy dandy student pledge form.

AS A STUDENT who believes in acting collectively and who supports workers’ right to bargain for good jobs and a better life, I am interested in doing one or more of the following (please check all that apply):

I want to connect with the union movement on my campus or in my community.

I want to help organize a teach-in like today’s for others on my campus or on a different campus.

I want to support workers’ organizing and collective bargaining struggles on my campus and in my community.

I want to learn about the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute programs. Please e-mail me information.

I would like to become a member of Working America, the community and student affiliate of the AFL-CIO. (www.workingamerica.org)

I would like to talk to someone about becoming an organizer for Working America.

[mnehring]

The sad part is the end result where this transfers out of the classroom into the boardroom. Where millions are spent trying to be ‘multi cultural’ instead of simply appealing to the individual. I live it every day. This seems a cycle that is self fueling. The loss of individuality to someone’s group definition.

[Clintonfatigued]

This is a college thread, but homeschoolers may be interested.

[GeronL]

I think the NEA has endorsed sex by 10 or something these days. They aren’t just freaking nuts, they are perverts.

[Nip]

IMHO we are seeing the last, logical, outcome of the 1960-11970 student radical movement.

Once the student radicals left the dual shelter of home and their alma mater they discovered that the “real” world wasn't interested in their opinions or college experiences. In fact the only place that placed any value on their opinions and college experiences were the education system. So, they retreated into the comforting world they had learned to manipulate and dominate and become college professors.

In any functional society they wouldn't have gone there. But in our society with a fetish for “advanced education” (aka BS, MS, PhD) their production of paperwork and destruction of rational thought was applauded.

Some 40 years later we are witnessing the logical outcome of this augmented by tenure.

The way to correct this lies within the wallets of our children, our grand-children’s parents. Don't send you children to school for degrees that have no use outside academia. If the college is teaching bovine excrement pay for your children to go elsewhere. Plus, don't you, yourselves, contribute to alumni fund drives.

Stop rewarding failure. We have done so for a generation and all it produces is more failure.

[OneWingedShark]

Logic.

[minor49er]

From the article: “A new study reports the dismal finding that 45% of college students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore year. During their prior semester, half the students did not take a single course that required 20 pages of writing, and a third did not take a single course requiring so much as 20 pages of reading per week.”

Spring semester of my sophomore year I took Microprocessor System Design, Multivariable Calculus, Navigation (NROTC), Signals and Systems, and Digital Electronic Circuit Design. There was a lot of coding and problem solving, but I wonder where the author would suggest putting in the writing and reading?