All Posts Tagged With: "teacher training"
Cultural Competence and Your Child
A buzz term is appearing with increased frequency in the literature and programs surrounding education at both the public-school and university levels: cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, “What is it, and how could it affect my children?” The term “cultural competence” first arose in connection with health care, where a standard definition is: [...]
1Sep2007 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Trouble with Teacher Training
This is an article about an absurd state of affairs in the field of education, but I’d like to begin with a little thought experiment having nothing directly to do with education. Imagine two countries-Freedonia and Ruloveria-whose inhabitants like music. However, the two follow entirely different methods of training the musicians who play in their [...]
1Nov2001 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Graves of Academe by Richard Mitchell
The Akadine Press • 1999 • 229 pages • $15.95 paperback Richard Mitchell is back in print! This is a new printing of Richard Mitchell’s 1981 book, one that I found irresistible back then and still regard as one of the most devastating, clear-eyed attacks on America’s pompous education establishment ever written. Mitchell, still alive [...]
1Mar2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued-
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