Sir Ken Robinson has a highly entertaining way of explaining things.
This video is from the 2006 TED meeting and well worth watching and enjoying.

Islam Is Being Taught In Public Schools

For some time, there has been a deep-seated concern about taxpayer funding of public schools that yield inferior results.
Along with proposals for more charter schools, is the worry that those taxpayer dollars being diverted from public schools are actually being used to promote minority and ethnic agendas. The establishment, and public funding, of a charter elementary school devoted to teaching strictly Islamic studies is already on record.
Any proposals for additional charter schools MUST have some type of regulations to prevent this misuse of taxpayer dollars.
But in California, it’s not a charter school, but regular public school that is flaunting separation of church and state.
The following video is eye-opening, to say the least.
When we are told daily that it is illegal for children to say prayers in our public schools, how has this situation been allowed? Is it ignorance? Or public apathy? Or what . . .
Watch the following video and decide for yourselves.

When my grandchildren (who live in California) cannot say Christian prayers in school, or carry a Bible onto campus, how is this allowed to happen?
I’ve included a link to another article that discusses the matter, in case you want to investigate further.
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So . . . What do you think?
Brennan
The Kingsland Plan
Save Our Schools
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Alice for Fun Learning!

Teaching Students to Program With Stories

Alice is a 3D virtual worlds programming environment that makes it easy to create animations for either story telling or interactive games. Students can learn the intricacies of programming through enjoyable activities.
Available for free download on the internet (provided by Carnegie Mellon), Alice has been used with 4th-6th grade youngsters on up to high school students.
Teachers can use Alice to integrate computer science with any other discipline.
Alice can be used in two ways:

At the lower level students can learn enough Alice to build interactive worlds to integrate it into course modules
At a higher level, Alice is a complete course on learning programming. In any current module in which a student creates a poster or presentation, the student now can build an interactive story or game as the presentation.

The wonderful thing about Alice is that students, yes, even middle school girls, can learn computer programming through storytelling.
What a breakthrough!

Inspired Teaching Made Into Fun

MYST is another technologically-advanced program for involving and engrossing students to achieve peak levels of performance.
These videos are about an award-winning teacher in the U.K. and the techniques he uses to motivate and inspire his students. As Clive McGonigal (the friend who told me about Tim Ryland) mentioned in his email to me. . .
“How many classes of kids do you know that moan when the lesson’s over?”
Enjoy the videos and take a look at the website. See what can be accomplished when teachers are allowed to use their creativity.

What a fellow teacher says about the effectiveness of this technique.

For years, Don Kingsland, author of “Set Our Teachers FREE! A Plan to Save Public Education” and “The Kingsland Plan” utilized creative techniques to help his students far surpass expectations. The newest generation of creative teachers is exemplified by Tim Ryans.
Our students

Alice for Fun Learning!

Teaching Students to Program With Stories

Alice is a 3D virtual worlds programming environment that makes it easy to create animations for either story telling or interactive games. Students can learn the intricacies of programming through enjoyable activities.
Available for free download on the internet (provided by Carnegie Mellon), Alice has been used with 4th-6th grade youngsters on up to high school students.
Teachers can use Alice to integrate computer science with any other discipline.
Alice can be used in two ways:

At the lower level students can learn enough Alice to build interactive worlds to integrate it into course modules
At a higher level, Alice is a complete course on learning programming. In any current module in which a student creates a poster or presentation, the student now can build an interactive story or game as the presentation.

The wonderful thing about Alice is that students, yes, even middle school girls, can learn computer programming through storytelling.
What a breakthrough!

Inspired Teaching Made Into Fun

MYST is another technologically-advanced program for involving and engrossing students to achieve peak levels of performance.
These videos are about an award-winning teacher in the U.K. and the techniques he uses to motivate and inspire his students. As Clive McGonigal (the friend who told me about Tim Ryland) mentioned in his email to me. . .
“How many classes of kids do you know that moan when the lesson’s over?”
Enjoy the videos and take a look at the website. See what can be accomplished when teachers are allowed to use their creativity.

What a fellow teacher says about the effectiveness of this technique.

For years, Don Kingsland, author of “Set Our Teachers FREE! A Plan to Save Public Education” and “The Kingsland Plan” utilized creative techniques to help his students far surpass expectations. The newest generation of creative teachers is exemplified by Tim Ryans.
Our students

Thanksgiving Wishes

George Winston - Thanksgiving

The following quotes and video come from interviews conducted by Charlie Rose:
“The American public school system has long been under scrutiny and in crisis. However, there is growing sentiment that large scale reform could be possible. In anticipation of the 2008 election, I have been conducting a series of interviews on education, sponsored by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.”
“Most recently I spoke to four of our nation’s best teachers, all of them recent winners of the National Teacher of the Year award. Here is some of what Michael Geisen, Jason Kamras, Kimberly Oliver, and Kathy Mellor had to say about standardized testing, merit pay, and other features of the current educational climate:”

The only comment I can disagree with is Kathy Mellor’s comment (the final teacher), that the NEA is an “association, not a union”. Whether the NEA benefits teachers or not, it is, first and foremost a union.
If enough parents and teachers can rally around The Kingsland Plan, then we can implement the positive changes needed to straighten-out public education in the USA.
Brennan
The Kingsland Plan
Save Our Schools

Education Today and Tomorrowshareski2 min 30 sec - Sep 20, 2006This video was created by Tom Woodwar