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by JANN FLURY
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Times have changed since I was a kid and went to school in Switzerland. The schedule was five-and-a-half days a week: 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, and from 8:00 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. on Saturdays.

By Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Thanks to the cellular telephone, what C.S. Lewis called the "silent planet" has become far more talkative in the last five years.

By Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Karaoke or not, most human beings are still whistlers - chirping bipeds, Aristotle might have called us. Perhaps we picked it up from neighboring birds, just as we picked up hunting in packs from wild dogs.

By Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Civilization is a big vocabulary, often with a bloody history. Modern languages like Spanish and English still bear the etymological scars of countless invasions, military and cultural. According to Fernando Corripio's " Diccionario Etimologico ," Olé !

By Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
There's nothing new about reciting poems in public, even by non-poets. Who can forget Anne of Green Gables declaiming Alfred Noyes' "The Highwayman" in front of a gaggle of adults swilling tea?

by JANN FLURY
Columnist EducationNews.org
You don't have to convince the archeologist of the importance of understanding written symbols to decode ancient texts. The Dead Sea Scrolls and other historical documents could not have been translated without first learning the written symbols that make up words. So why should it be any different for a student learning to read today?

by JANN  FLURY
Columnist EducationNews.org      
How, why, when, where, and by whom children should be taught to read remains a confused issue in today's halls of academe.  And the progressive educators don't differentiate between learning and practicing.

by JANN FLURY
Columnist EducationNews.org
All human endeavours are most successful if they progress from a solid foundation.

by JANN FLURY
Columnist EducationNews.org
There was a time when the teacher got the students' attention simply by walking into the classroom.