Author: EdwardBerger
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An Open Letter To The President And First Lady
Dear President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama, I am writing due to extreme concerns about the American Public Education System being altered and changed on your watch. I am in my 53rd year as an educator. I entered my first classroom, as a teacher, in 1961 and have learned at all levels of…
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Going Dark … but not out of the light
When one writes in light, the expression “going dark” has real meaning. Since early 2012, I have been in the light, sorting through and sharing thousands and thousands of blogs, Tweets, FB sites, and correspondence from educators and those who believe the future of America requires free public comprehensive schools. I believe in free education…
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I Was A Different Person Last year…
Ed, all you ever blog or Tweet about is education. Ending this year, can’t you write about something else? Okay, from 2013 here is something educational, but not about our schools: When I was in college, I inherited old books from an Englishman’s library. One set of leather-bound books contained the complete works of Bulwer…
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The Ignorant Mindset Destroying American Education
To get the most out of this blog, view Ted Talks 2011 – Knowledge Is Power. #1: Sir Ken Robinson; and #5: Salman Kahn, and the Kahn Academy. I selected these two excellent presentations for many reasons, but the most important reveal is when Bill Gates comes on stage with Salman Kahn. His reaction and…
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Two Systems Collide. Representative Democracy Ends
A majority of those who hold the power and wealth of our nation run their coercive top-down empires as personal wealth and power generators. They see themselves as decision makers who should shape the world (i.e., similar to the ‘rule of the few’ model used in China). They believe in their system of unquestioned force-based…
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We Honor Diane Ravich
I finished reading Reign of Error as my family explored Colorado’s beauty, not long after stopping at 12,180 feet above sea level, overlooking the Continental Divide and Trail Ridge Road. That eagle’s view of beauty, and my mind’s view of America, made the book even more special. From that vantage point, with Diane’s information filling…
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Into The Realms Of The High Rockies
Out of Africa, out of Denmark they came home for a visit. Two sons with the world at their feet and service in their hearts. How our hearts swell and our smiles last. We are of Colorado soil and high aspen groves that quake like our imaginations. The call of the high country as the…
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Billionaires Bypass Accountability and Democracy
The super rich are more privileged than the rest of us as they do not have to have their ideologies examined by the people. They do not have to be elected before they force changes. If they believe that our public schools should be destroyed, they destroy them. If they believe that educated and certified…
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Testing The Reformers – Part II
Last week I posted a blog about testing those who are having a major impact on education in America. Are these people qualified to affect the lives of children? To reorganize or destroy schools? To evaluate teachers? To introduce alien and unproven processes and top-down edicts on all schools? What must they know and be…
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Educators, Parents and Students TEST The Reformers
Let’s start evaluating the qualifications and accomplishments of the self-appointed education reformers. On my list of those to be Tested, Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Walton’s and the Walton Foundation, Eli Broad and the Broad Foundation, Michelle Rhee and the Students First organization, also Bloomberg, Parents First, etc., … you…