This is my first blog. Frankly, it is a new experience for me. So bare with me if it looks like I don't know what I'm doing. What pray tell is RSS 2.0? What is syndication? Do I really want to become another Ann Landers? That might be cool. Well, in time all of this may become clear. After all, I understand that there are millions of bloggers out there so with odds like that I may be able to figure this out.
However, when it comes to education, I'm not exactly a novice. Years ago, I wrote a book called How to Make Better Grades, published by Grosset and Dunlap, New York. It was in print nine years but is no longer on the market. I've been an employment recruiter for nine years in the corporate world so I know a little bit about the relationship between education and getting a job. I have even published a newsletter called Today's Collegiate Job Search Guide that went out to 800 colleges and universities in the western part of the United States. I taught high school 17 years and was advisor to the school newspaper for 14 years, a paper that had a strong editorial page covering a great variety of education issues that still exist today. Since I don't believe in just complaining about problems without offering solutions, I have been working on projects along this line. I currently publish a reading and vocabulary course for first and second graders called Parents Guide to Teaching Phonics and am working on a writing curriculum slanted toward non-fiction report writing for high school and college students. This is just a little bio information to let you know where I'm coming from.
I don't know who is going to read this blog. I hope somebody does. My preferred audiences are: parents and students, elected government representatives, and people who are working in education. Many of our current education issues are steeped controversy; hence, what any of us write is bound to be critical at times and ruffle a few feathers. This blog is not likely to be any different. I just hope that people will keep in mind that we don't have to agree with each other's ideas, but everyone gains by keeping an open market for them. I look forward to your comments--the good, the bad and the ugly.
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