by altha-admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Articles
There were missteps a plenty my first time student-teaching. With a little more introspection and perspective, I would have not bothered with a second try at student-teaching. In those days, though, I was so insistent on taking someone else's lead with so many...
by altha-admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Articles
Looking back, I cannot believe that I did not see the summoning tsunami of disrespect that was heading my way as a student-teacher. Students as a rule do not think that they have to listen to a substitute teacher, and a student-teacher is even lower on the totem...
by altha-admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Articles
I student-taught at a local high school, a miserable experience which ended with me getting the boot after six abortive weeks. The credential advisor chided and comforted me in one throw: "You simply were not ready." Yet the year of study, of provisional...
by altha-admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Articles
President Obama, one of the vainest politicians in the last ten years, has finally admitted one mistake that he made — although there are many more he needs to acknowledge, like the failed stimulus, the rise in unemployment, and even more so for minorities, as...
by altha-admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Articles
Condoleeza Rice was a superb Secretary of State. She is forward and out-spoken, but she is also pro-choice, a non-starter with the GOP base and Establishment, two constituencies which are essential as well as crucial to Romney's victory in November. To frustrate...
by altha-admin | Jul 13, 2012 | Articles
With a $46 million deficit, San Bernardino is the third city in California to file for bankruptcy. The easy-breezy paydays to public sectors has come to an end. At least two other saintly cities, San Diego and San Jose, did not sit idly by while the public sector...
