Michael F. Shaughnessy Sr. Columnist
An Interview with J.B. Schramm: College Summit
9.1.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - College Summit is the national organization that helps public schools raise their purpose from high school diplomas to college and career success. We collaborate with principals, teachers and the most influential seniors to put every student on the path to higher education.
An Interview with Deborah Ruf: TalentIgniter
9.1.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - TalentIgniter is my new web-based business and it will eventually serve bright people from infancy on through adult life. TalentIgniterä is the result of my work to develop affordable methods to help families and individuals meet their goals in life. ...
An Interview with Scott Seider : Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless ( Continuum, 2010)
8.30.10- Michael F. Shaughnessy - Interestingly, I began the project much more focused on the college students volunteering at the Harvard Square Shelter than on the homeless men and women who stayed there. As I said earlier, my own research background focuses on the civic development of young adults...
An Interview with Mark Bauerlein: Stemming the Glut
8.27.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Mark, we recently had a problem with British Petroleum trying to stop the flow of oil into the ocean. In academia, we have a different problem, and that is way too much research, of too little value, is being published in a horde of different journals. Or am I off on this?...
An Interview with Dr. Robert L. Lawson
8.24.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - I personally don’t think it’s ever too early to start teaching your kids the value of a hard earned dollar. I know that like most parents, I have a tendency to protect my kids from some of the economic hardships that I faced as a child because I just didn’t want them to have to go through some of the things that I experienced as a child. ...
An Interview with Ron DeLuca: The Hancock Community Education Foundation
8.23.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - The purpose of the foundation is to build a demonstration model for closing the gap in education between the underserved student population of rural America and that of wealthier suburban America, the most consistently successful education system in the country....
An Interview with John Jackson President & CEO Schott Foundation: “Yes We Can “
8.18.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - This is one of a series of biennial reports from the Schott Foundation for Public Education (www.schottfoundation.org) that examines Black males and public education, including graduation rates (and the racial graduation gap), ...
An Interview with Steve Peha: Teaching that Makes Sense
8.16.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - We have created about 10,000 pages of teaching materials, about 2000 pages of which are on the site now, another 2000 or so are available via link lists I distribute, and the rest are on hard disks waiting to be formatted for delivery....
An Interview with Sharon Lee: Contemporary Girl Scouts
8.13.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - We want people to know that Girl Scouts today are doing amazing things. They build homes for the homeless. They spend a week at Space Camp. They travel to incredible places like Paris, London and India, just to name a few. ...
An Interview with David Gragan: The Public Procurement Process
8.11.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - It must abandon its focus on zero risk! Only with entrepreneurial thought in the contracting process, can we hope to deliver smart solutions to leading edge government innovators. ...
An Interview with Neal McCluskey: Where is that 10 Billion Going and to Whom and What ?
8.10.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Even absolutely worst-case scenarios show only a very small fraction of public school employees facing layoffs, and when you compare staffing and academic achievement trends it is clear that we have far too many public school employees, not too few...
An Interview with Rae Pica: Moving & Learning
8.9.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Moving & Learning offers services and books/curricula related to physical activity for children from birth to age 8. The company’s mission is to ensure that movement is an integral part of children’s lives and education!...
An Interview with Chance Hunt: The Importance of the Library
8.5.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - As part of a city-wide strategy, The Seattle Public Library is committed to ensuring school readiness for children and families. The Library focuses on early literacy; what children need to know about reading and writing before they can actually read and write....
An Interview with Professor Donald Elder: Revisiting the Lincoln-Douglas Debates
8.4.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - The temperament of Congress is clearly less civil now than it was 40 or 50 years ago, and my theory is that while we were engaged in the Cold War, Republicans and Democrats could at least work together to defeat the common foe....
An Interview with Kelly Middleton: Simply the Best
8.3.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - It seems that the very best have a way of doing most of the 29 concepts. We actually went into classrooms of teachers who were considered the best by both administration and the students and asked the teacher to leave the classroom. ...continue...
Perhaps it was my good fortune not to see this all at once! The explicit doctrine is that no change in the behaviour of any ...
A Further Interview with Colin Hannaford: on ‘Mathematics Education for Peace’
7.27.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - When you first interviewed me, back in May, I described how I and Professor Hani Khoury, who is the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Science of Mercer University’s College of Continuing and Professional Studies, were invited to Jordan to address the Arab Thought Forum....
An Interview with Professor Donald Elder: Benjamin Franklin- His Lasting Contributions
7.26.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Benjamin Franklin still speaks to the American experience 220 years after he passed away. He was a man who used his talents to better himself, but also better humanity. Americans have always valued both qualities...
An Interview with Don M. Winn: Going to the Cats?
7.24.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - I’ve had both dogs and cats over the years but primarily cats so I have a wealth of cat observations to pull from. The storylines of the two books that feature cats, The Watch Cat and Shelby the Cat are considerably different. ...
An Interview with Russell Di Gate: Where the Jobs Are- And Where are they Going to be?
7.22.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - There is currently some ambivalence among high school and college students about going into a health care profession. Is there simply a lack of career guidance and vocational information in the schools?...
An Interview with Susan Hallam: Music and it’s Impact and Importance
7.20.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - The academic year 2009-2010 has been the Year of Music in the UK. The book was written in part to celebrate the end of that year. We were also aware of the impending general election and the likelihood of budget cuts so we wanted to set out the strength of music education so that cuts could be made from an informed position by policy makers....
An Interview with Fred Stawitz: The Soul of the Gang
7.19.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - Homeboy's Soul is the result of a chance meeting with Don Armijo at a writer's conference in Los Angeles. Don had an incredible story to tell and wanted to know how to write a book. But with his cholo look and tattoos, no one at the conference would talk to him....
An Interview with Abhishek Parajuli: Reflections on Education in Hong Kong and Nepal
7.19.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - I heard about the Concord Review from a friend and when I decided to do my Extended Essay ( a 4000 word independent research assignment that is a required component of the IB diploma) history ( The United Nation's role in the genocide in Rwanda) I knew I would submit it there to see if I met its standards. ...
An Interview with Drew Aquilina: Green Pieces
7.18.10 - Michael F. Shaughnessy - In preparing the Green Pieces marketing plan, my publicist researched all environmental and other book contests, festivals, etc. The Green Book Festival seemed to be the perfect fit for my cartoon compilation and my first such competition....
An Interview with Professor Donald Elder: The Battle of Gettysburg - 200 Years Later
7.14.10 - The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863. The commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was Robert E. john Lee. His corps commanders were Richard Ewell, A.P.Hill and James Longstreet. ...An Interview with J.B. Schramm: College Summit
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One of the benefits of living in an Internet-enabled world is being able to share and experience the music of other cultures. The world of ...
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As a retired school superintendent, I applaud your remarks. What I do in retirement in Connecticut is to help citizens establish local audit committees ...
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Michael F. Shaughnessy Senior Columnist
EducationNews.org and is currently Professor in Educational Studies and is a Consulting Editor for Gifted Education International and Educational Psychology Review.
EducationNews.org and is currently Professor in Educational Studies and is a Consulting Editor for Gifted Education International and Educational Psychology Review.
