What Presidents Don’t Know About Education Plus RECAP of 6 Star Plus Books Relevant to Creating a Smart Nation with a Strategic Narrative that WORKS

How to Get a Real Education Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says Scott Adams (Creator of Dilbert) Wall Street Journal, 9 April 2011 I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are …

Suicide turns attention to Fairfax County school discipline procedures

Suicides are never associated with a single cause, experts say. But Nick’s difficulties – based on interviews with family, friends, experts and school officials, and more than 100 pages of case documents – allow a close look at how consequences intended to help a student correct course instead can fuel a growing despair. His story …

Review: Why Leaders Lie–The Truth About Lying in International Politics

John J. Mearsheimer Cornerstone, Not the Whole Building January 2, 2011 By no stretch should this book be dismissed as a three. While I might normally have gone with a four, I am settling on five for balance and because the author not only covers an extraordinarily important topic in a sensible measured way, but …

Review: Reflexive Practice–Professional Thinking for a Turbulent World

Kent C. Myers et al Beyond 5 Stars–a Foundation Work November 20, 2010 In combination with the other books that I am reading this week, the first by David Perkins, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education, the second by Curtis Bonk, The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing …

Journal: Sacred Music from a Time of Peace Among Religions

From Jerusalem to Cordoba Here’s a press release for a performance I’m co-producing with Scoop Sweeney: AUSTIN – Catherine Braslavsky and Joseph Rowe will bring their musical performance, “From Jerusalem to Cordoba,” from Paris to Austin on December 3, 7pm at St. David’s Episcopal Church, Bethell Hall, 301 E. 8th St., Austin, 78701-3280. The performance …