Michael F. Shaughnessy – The book is about the ways in which climate change alarmism has crept in – or should I say invaded? – numerous policy areas beyond science and the environment.
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman Michael F. Shaughnessy Eastern New Mexico University Portales, New Mexico I took me quite a while to read this book. I am not sure if [...]
Michael F. Shaughnessy – Every day of my life gave me ideas for my first book, “Dreaming Out Loud.” It is based on the lessons I have learned in life, the struggles I have overcome, and the dreams I still have faith in–despite circumstances.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – My newest book is A Pet for Miss Wright, about an author. She’s lonely writing her stories in her quiet office so she decides to get a pet. But not any pet will do.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – Exposing the Public Education System: Understanding & Transforming the Failure of Education’s Political Bureaucracy is a book that explains how public education has failed us all…
Michael F. Shaughnessy – For years, the little attention devoted to entrepreneurship and the “new sector” in K-12 schooling has generally focused on efforts to boost the supply of familiar things: more good schools, more talented teachers, and more effective school leaders.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System was wildly hailed as author and education critic Diane Ravitch’s dramatic about-face on No Child Left Behind, charter schools, and school choice. What’s missing from this sensational take is that Ravitch has changed her mind only about school reform tactics, and not about what constitutes good schools, or about her top priorities in fostering them.
Some of the brightest, most interesting people I’ve every taught or studied have been girls in their teens. Several have been prodigies whose talents have inspired me with awe and wonder. In many cases the talents and abilities of these youngsters has gone unrecognized.
On the radical left, group manipulation tactics are a time-honored means of reaching a desired political outcome by marginalizing the opposition. They are also a means of maintaining power once it is achieved and of marginalizing dissidents. The tactics of group manipulation have been used to great effect by the totalitarian socialist regimes of the 20th century.
Kenneth J. Bernstein – Teachers can never declare “Missions Accomplished,” because they are a bridge, not an endpoint, for all the boys and girls (and men and women) who come into their lives . . . .
Michael F. Shaughnessy – The New Cool is a story about science, education, and how we inspire students to embrace their passions, no matter what others think.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – Video media is a good way to spread a simple message to a broad range of people. Television has been used as a tool to teach fundamentals concepts to children for many years. In the tradition of Sesame Street I’m hoping to use the video medium to show kids how much fun reading a book can be.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – My experience as a member of the 2008 Presidential Transition Team, where I was working on education policy, prompted me to write Kids First.
A. Graham Down – Too Simple to Fail, a new book from Oxford University Press, is a review of thirty years of research into how children learn. The author, R. Barker Bausell, a biostatistician in the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland, has come to the conclusion that classroom instruction is hopelessly obsolete, and that the answer to the deficiencies of our educational system is the tutorial model.
Jewel Topsfield A book of gruesome short stories is being taught to 13-year-olds at schools, prompting adolescent health experts to warn it could encourage vulnerable teens to self harm.
Helen Smith – Kay Hymowitz's new book wants the current generation of "child-men" to "man up." But maybe our society shouldn't have spent decades tearing them down.
Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck today said Americans should be alarmed over the revelations of a WND Books release, "The Islamic Antichrist," in which author Joel Richardson documents the similarities between the "bad guy" of the Bible, the Antichrist, and the "good guy" of the Quran, the Mahdi.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – What children learn about animals has a great deal to do with what they are taught by their parents, care-givers and teachers. If their parents teach them to respect and appreciate animals, it is very likely that the child will become compassionate and concerned about his fellow creatures and our planet.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – Policy in England is still evolving, but early indications suggest that there is a move to a more divided system for 14-19 year olds, with greater divisions between academic and vocational study and earlier specialisation.
Michael F. Shaughnessy – My original impetus for writing the book was a theory of school learning which gradually formed based upon my own and others research and festered in the back of my mind like a low grade irritant over the years.
Kenneth J. Bernstein – In all of the public discourse of what we need to do to fix public schools and educate our young people for the future, one set of voices has until now been conspicuously absent. It is the voices of teachers.
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