Think that’s a crazy question to ask?
Read this detailed report from the LA Times.
Among the findings:
* Building a case for dismissal is so time-consuming, costly and draining for principals and administrators that many say they don’t make the effort except in the most egregious cases. The vast majority of firings stem from blatant misconduct, including [...]
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Is public education in the big cities too far gone to be saved?
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, education, politics, public policy, tagged education, public schools, LAUSD, elementary school, tenure, firing, teachers, union on May 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Confusion on Easter Sunday
Posted in analysis of behavior, anthropology, tagged aliens, anthropology, behavior, boxing, easter, education, golf, politics on April 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I sit down to make sense of the world I often start with this question:
If beings from another galaxy were to show up on our planet on an anthropological mission, what would they think about all of this? What would they conclude? How is it all connected? What patterns would they find?
All of This [...]
The End Game: the Big Zap!
Posted in analysis of behavior, decision theory, mason jar, religion, speculation, tagged decision theory, education, faith, grand children, immigration, purpose, relevence, religion, science on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lets consider a dying star. Any dying star.
They are out there you know… dying, forming and changing as assuredly as Earth’s season’s change only their timeline is highly skewed toward the million year epoch.
On a gross level, all those stars out there dying do pretty much similar things when they die. Eventually they turn [...]
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