2023-10-15 22:17
Last week I dropped my complaint against UConn for age discrimination practices in exchange for a promise by their counsel to address the issues involved.I received the following email… Read More
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This is an unofficial and oftentimes humorous look at my Region19 Board of Education experience. I will try to stimulate interest and discussion along the way. This is a sandbox of ideas that we'll explore together so feel free to comment.
2023-06-16 06:52
The following is a draft version of the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities AFFIDAVIT OF ILLEGAL DISCRIMINATION I plan to submit.I am crowd sourcing the proof-reading and… Read More
2023-02-20 15:13
This from Yale: Read More
2021-01-12 05:28
In the early hours of the dawn of Liberal Fascism, the first empirical casualty is the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. The assassins are twofold - a public edu… Read More
2020-10-29 05:39
In 2006, as a member of the school board, I created a post advocating Virtual Make-up Days.Fourteen years later, the State of CT - thanks to a worldwide pandemic - has finally figured it out… Read More
2020-05-18 04:14
This are the final observations I will offer about the Sol Pais history.Before Sol Pais was found dead in the woods of Colorado, she came to my attention in some information streams I religi… Read More
2020-02-24 04:46
According to Wikipedia, a person suffering from hypothermia who takes their clothes off is suffering from Extreme Hypothermia." In mild hypothermia there is shivering and &hell…Read More
2019-10-14 03:22
One of the curiosities of the Sol Pais suicide was that she purchased two boxes of ammunition for the shotgun. Before 8chan was scrubbed, that community thread debated this anomaly.If… Read More
2019-08-21 03:47
I've written on this subject before when it concerned the killing of Tamir Rice. And the subject is the allegation that a suspect who has not yet committed a crime is dressed in camouf… Read More
2019-07-14 06:51
The major search engines are no longer dependable repositories of objective information. For the most cynical critics this observation is not new but in my experience there was a time… Read More
2019-04-26 01:50
Audiences never groaned often enough toward the end of grade 'B' scare movies when the individuals who remained alive during the killing spree came to the conclusion that they should "split… Read More
2019-04-23 02:22
I spent this evening examining Sol Pais's journal on her website.The journal consists of 61 pages curated by Sol to be discovered after her suicide attempt [keep in mind she might have been… Read More
2019-04-21 22:08
Invitational disclaimer: Years ago, I had much more free time to spend investigating topics of special interest The best I can do is offer educated speculation that I hope provokes and… Read More
2019-04-20 17:45
The bizarre story of the hunting and death of Sol Pais fit a pattern I've written about before and that continues to play out with predictable inevitability. The pattern I'm speaking o… Read More
2019-03-13 02:25
Today, Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post reports on a set of fraud cases that are but the tip of an iceberg in secondary education.This has long been one of my special interests a… Read More
2019-02-10 04:38
"In a recent NPR report, writer Anya Kamenetz notes that clinicians are debating whether technology overuse is best categorized as a bad habit, a symptom of other mental struggles (such… Read More
2019-02-10 04:34
When I was in college, I became a fan of the de-schooling authors and followed their work enthusiastically. John Holt, Ivan Illich, Paulo Friere, and others found a warm place on my bo… Read More
2019-01-24 01:51
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2019/january/cmu-launches-high-school-computer-science-curriculum.html Read More
2018-12-24 16:42
Since letting go of the School Board position I've turned my attention elsewhere. I just noticed I had no new posts for the year and that didn't seem right.This year I've discovered th… Read More
2018-06-28 02:22
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/opinion/rich-parents-hurt-schools-economic-segregation.html Read More
2018-06-17 18:44
This should be of interest to everyone:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/06/18/skam-the-radical-teen-drama-that-unfolds-one-post-at-a-time Read More
2017-11-17 07:07
After twelve years on the Board I decided not to run again. With the recent election I'm no longer a Region 19 Board member but I've been offered the opportunity to continue participat… Read More
2017-02-07 20:41
Now do something about this stuff: http://region19.blogspot.com/2010/06/random-stuff.html Read More
2016-12-11 23:28
This news was unreported and buried by Connecticut's MSM. CT News Junkie seems to be a sole source. This is the kind of news the State government wants to keep buried. Business as usua… Read More
2016-12-11 22:54
In a recent article in the Vice digital magazine entitled "The Legal Industry for Kidnapping Teens" by Serena Solomon we are given a tour of one of the more controversial aspects of th… Read More
2016-09-11 19:18
One of the most pernicious and successful ways in which cybernetic systems can be compromised is through the act of social engineering. In other words, a human who has secure access to… Read More
2016-09-10 03:20
I'm becoming increasingly interested in the ethics of psychology specifically when it concerns digital media.A particularly interesting debate has been sparked by the post-911 torture and ab… Read More
2016-09-10 03:07
I received an email from CABE, the Ct Association of Boards of Education, a few days ago. It contained some surprising news in a deja vu kind of way."Over the course of 3 hours, Judge Moukaw… Read More
2016-08-27 15:14
There's a tendency to believe that high school students graduate into the adult world but anyone who is a parent knows better. Today the exposure to mass culture is saturating and a la… Read More
2016-08-25 04:10
On June 13, 2016, Cory Sipe a reporter for The Chronicle, a Willimantic, CT newspaper contacted me via email saying;"Frank, I would like to talk with you about a letter sent to the BOE… Read More
2016-08-09 02:22
2016-08-03 03:59
A topic that recently has come to my attention and that I haven't written very much about lately is academic fraud in it's many guises. Some recent research into the subject happened upon an… Read More
2016-07-10 15:33
About a week or two ago, I got an email from the Courant that illustrated an interesting statistic, the national average of students attending higher education (for 2013). It says 66%… Read More
2016-06-18 06:04
Decomposing "The Republic of Mansfield" MicrofictionIt's been many years since I last published a Microfiction. Most were published in a Xerox magazine that I co-published in the mid-e… Read More
2016-04-25 02:34
The term "21st Century School" has become an empty catchphrase for the architecture and construction of schools that are still stuck in Carnegie Seat time classes and business as usual in a… Read More
2015-11-10 15:34
Adios.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/us/obama-administration-calls-for-limits-on-testing-in-schools.htmlI tried this comment with the the Times;"So the reign of terror is being reigned in… Read More
2015-09-17 17:29
One of the subjects of interest that the Region 19 Digital Learning Committee will be discussing this year is School Bus Technology. We talk a lot about school technology but the most… Read More
Updated: Government Sanctioned Murder Of Children And Innocents, The Gamification Of Police Violence
2015-02-05 22:14
The past year has been a violent one and the most disturbing source of violence has been the seeming indiscriminate execution of individuals whose life was taken by police who choose the opt… Read More
2015-01-25 03:35
2014-12-03 08:06
Update: The initial narrative of this post is corrected based on the fact that some of the preliminary information it was based on has been clarified and given greater detailWe're back with… Read More
2014-11-30 19:30
Let's take a look at some of the metaphorical implications of the Michael Brown execution and examine the likelihood of co-incidence to the possibility that a new cult may have systematicall… Read More
2014-11-29 22:22
There is hardly a case when a Law Officer is involved in a shooting of a suspect that the ubiquitous defense used to justify the shooting is the Split-Second Decision. This terminology… Read More
2014-11-27 08:00
The Grand Jury process used to secure a trial for Michael Brown in Ferguson failed. A recent Slate article written by Dahlia Lithwick and Sonja West entitled Shadow Trial det… Read More
2014-11-21 19:52
Today I received a copy of the Connecticut Elementary and Secondary Social Studies Framework. You can get a copy here. It came with the following letter of explanation;"Request for Pub… Read More
2014-06-04 17:25
One of the ideas that I've been kicking around involves the idea of sending parents back to high school to refresh their high school diplomas.The point of the exercise is to reacquaint paren… Read More
2014-04-28 03:15
Parents across the country are legally opting their children out of public school standardized testing. Not only is it their right to do so but it may be the last vestige of voting wit… Read More
2013-11-16 21:05
2013-07-21 17:07
Yes, we are this luminous - nice to see someone noticed;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/smartest-cities-in-america_n_3499187.html Read More
2013-05-12 06:46
Jeff Bliss was clandestinely taped as he responded to his history teacher telling him to "stop bitching" about a testing anomaly. The video went viral.In the following follow-up video… Read More
2013-04-07 06:04
There's a great article in School Matters that revisits the phony rhetoric that surrounds the STEM and Race to the Top educational programs.Gerald Bracey's work still shines; "Another recent… Read More
2013-03-24 18:24
The Guardian Media Group has launched a student debt network.Why?"Recent figures paint a dramatic picture: According to the Federal Reserve, student debt in the US is approaching $1tn &ndash&hell…Read More
2012-12-24 07:14
The Newtown Massacre has left me with a profound grief that I cannot shake. The wrong committed is unspeakably wrong.The aftermath of this horrific act is to once again to st… Read More
2012-11-04 16:21
This is my traditional election year endorsement slate. I believe romney and McMahon will lose but they are the superior candidates and I think Courtney and Eastwood will win because t… Read More
2012-10-29 03:01
I had the opportunity to come across a copy of the Connecticut Education Association's newsletter that endorses Barack Obama rather than Romney. It was a piece called "The Choice… Read More
2012-10-06 03:05
The first of the presidential debates is over and the battle lines are being drawn by the same special interests whose interests are at stake. And there is no shortage of Sherlock Holm… Read More
2012-05-27 23:52
Despite a lot of special interest Romney bashing on the issues of education at least Romney want s to return local control. I'll vote for that any day over the convoluted Obama policie… Read More
2012-05-27 22:44
This is the time of year that commencement addresses flood the internet and so many are good that there simply isn't enough time to see or read them all.This one by Sheryl Sandberg is outsta… Read More
2012-05-20 16:56
A report from National Public Radio informs us that a new study disrupts our understanding and practice involved with the application of Bell curves in many of our endeavors. The report publ… Read More
2012-05-13 07:01
Last night I experimented with TED-Ed's latest tool to create tutorials from YouTube content.Here's the link Read More
2012-04-15 22:53
Noam Chomsky has written an article for Truthout in which he describes the current situation eloquently."Mass public education is one of the great achievements of American society. It has h… Read More
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