DISQUS

Hans Bader · 1 year ago

When I noted that "I spent less time studying than I did watching the sitcom 'Married With Children,'" I was referring to time spent studying outside of class, and was not including class time, which obviously wouldn't be less than the 90 minutes or so I spent daily watching "Married With Children" episodes.

L. Smith · 1 year ago

The most fundamental learning "building block" for children to be able to enter into society is the ability to read. By failing to ensure total literacy across the board for all students emerging from our school system, regardless of any other factors, is a firm declaration that our system and basic approach to education is a failure. Take a look at the end-to-end treatment and actionable recommendations in the recently released commission report, "Education in America -- What's to Be Done?" developed by Trigon-International to see how this problem is best addressed.