Si habla español, lea el documento (PDF), Conozca sus Derechos Educativos, en el sitio web del Departamento de Justicia de California. California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a new press release on January 6, 2025: Attorney General Bonta Issues Guidance on Educational Rights of Immigrant Students and Their Families. Schools as well as families should […]
Jan 12 2025
California Students Have Rights Regardless of Immigration Status
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Dec 28 2024
How School Vouchers Can Increase Segregation
School vouchers in Arizona help middle- and upper-income families choose private schools but are unworkable for lower-income families. There are a number of factors, most of them economic.
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Jul 30 2022
Life Happens
Too much has happened for the little time I have to tell about it. Suffice it to say, this website is dead for now. More to come, when I am ready to report…
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Jul 26 2017
Trouble Talking? Californians can Borrow an iPad for Free.
In January 2017, a new program started lending iPads to people with speech disabilities. By using the installed speech applications, people who have difficulty talking or trouble being understood can speak independently or more easily. This 18-month pilot program hopes to address a long-standing problem among potential users of such assistive technology: It is difficult […]
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Jan 28 2017
Can Sitting Harm Children?
Children Know Better Children do not sit still easily. They have good reason not to: Prolonged sitting day after day can lead to organ damage, muscle strain and degeneration, cancer, impaired brain function, and other adverse health outcomes (nicely summarized in a 2014 Washington Post article entitled, “The health hazards of Sitting).” Although most research […]
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Dec 04 2016
Pervasive CDC Corruption Related to Vaccines
New Book Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC, a book by James Ottar Grundvig, was published last May. Dr. Joseph Mercola wrote a thoughtful review in December 2016 and also posted the following interview on YouTube (uploaded Nov 29, 2016): https://youtu.be/cbdqB8CN-N8 How far we should trust […]
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Dec 03 2016
Better Seating Means Better Focus
I still remember some of the seats I was expected to sit in at school. The worst were metal ones, often attached to the desk so that I could not even adjust how close I sat to the work surface. They were so uncomfortable that I would alternate between leaning forward to put some of […]
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Sep 27 2016
California Foster Care Children Over-Prescribed Psychotropic Drugs
I previously wrote about research questioning the long-term use of Ritalin for ADHD. More recently, the State of California conducted an audit of psychotropic drug prescriptions in four representative counties, including Sonoma (the county in which I myself live). Apparently, foster children are prescribed too many of these drugs and often at too high a […]
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Sep 12 2016
Why did the Principal of Chicago’s Top School Resign?
Principal Troy LaRaviere dramatically improved the quality of a Chicago elementary school, using empirical evidence about effective school practices. In other words, he used what had worked elsewhere and it quite naturally worked in Chicago, too. Nevertheless, the school board wanted to fire him. His successful ideas conflicted with the politics of the Chicago Mayor […]
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Jun 26 2016
Highly Recommended: Alternative Education Conference in Portland, Oregon
After five years, the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) is finally bringing their annual conference back to the US West Cost at Portland, Oregon, August 3-7, 2016. Sign up right away if interested. There is not much time left. As one who attended the conference the last time it came to Portland, I can attest […]
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