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Robert Oliphant Columnist EdNews.org

Robert Oliphant’s best known book is “A Piano for Mrs. Cimino” (Prentice Hall), which was made into an award-winning EMI film (Monte Carlo, US Directors) starring Bette Davis.  His best known work for musical theater (music, lyrics, and libretto) is “Oscar Wilde’s Earnest: A Chamber Opera for Eight Voices and Chorus.”  He has a PhD from Stanford, where he studied medieval lexicography under Herbert Dean Meritt, and  taught there as a visiting professor of English and Linguistics.  He currently serves as executive director of The Alliance for High Speed Recreational Reading, and formerly served as executive director of Californians for Community College Equity.  A resident of Thousand Oaks, CA, and an overseas Air Force veteran, he is an emeritus professor of English at Cal State Northridge.

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GI Bill #1 and GI Bill #2: A Positive View

by Robert Oliphant - May 28, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org 
Is our post 9/11 GI Bill going to work?  According to Robert Maynard Hutchins, back when GI Bill #1 was proposed as a way of pacifying 16 million veterans headed for civilian life

Anti-Alzheimer

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
The case for anti-Alzheimer’s achievement coaching as a career opportunity, as set forth in Education News, Feb. 19, 2009, can be summarized via three key words: worry, hope, and practicality. As far as worry goes, more and more of us, especially those in their early fifties, are getting panicky about our three major symptoms of cognitive deterioration:

Unemployment, High Tech Vocabulary Learning, and Seat-Time Education

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Are Americans being invaded by their own language? Yesterday a Kaiser Permanente nurse from Jordan read off my medications from a computer screen in flawless standard worldwide American pronunciation English (S.W.A.P.E.).

Anti-Alzheimer

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Dear Unemployable College Graduate. . . . In post prosperity America some college graduates are bound to be less employable than others, nationally or regionally. Even if you have impressive grades and test scores, your major, say, in comparative literature or ethnic studies may not leverage you into a fun job as well it might have done a couple of years ago.

Responsibility and Change

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
As a master wordsmith who knows his way around dictionaries, President Barak Obama has chosen his key terms with great care: responsibility rather than, say, accountability; change rather than innovation or creativity. So by way of getting a fix on what’s going to be coming down on us, let’s check responsibility out in Random House Unabridged (315,000 entries, 1.2 million word-definition combinations

Education Cutbacks, Experimental Verification, and Dictionary-Based High Speed Electronic Learning

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
The purpose of this article is to support recent claims regarding the potential cost- effectiveness of dictionary-based electronic learning, online and download, for American schools (K-16) facing massive budgetary cutbacks in connection with current attempts to conquer our second Great Depression.

Keynesian Economics and Dictionary-Based High Speed Vocabulary Learning

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Though exhilarating to many, President Obama’s asserting that “we are all one” is a mammoth downer for most of American education. In terms of Keynesian economics (“depression economics,” as Paul Klugman calls it) this means that government spending increases will go to industries (e.g., highway construction) linked to a maximum employment impact pyramid of direct and indirect suppliers

Alzheimer

by Robert Oliphant (“Bob”)
Columnist EducationNews.org
Hi, my name is Bob, and I’m recovering from Alzheimer’s. This means that my cognitive deterioration, though less noticeable now, still shows up as going blank on proper names and words, along with lapses in concentration, e.g., losing track of what’s just been said in casual chit chat. It also means that I have to stick with a hard ball anti-Alzheimer’s program if I want to stay clear of being shipped of to what is now called a “Memory Care” facility.

Are the Brits Justified in Slamming Republicans for Not Being Intelligent?

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
Coming after Obama's victory, the "most unkindest" cut of all for Republicans has surely been a "Ship of Fools" editorial by Lexington in the ECONOMIST (11/15). Starting its assault by asserting that the title "stupid party" now belongs to "the Tories' transatlantic cousins, the Republicans,"

Computers, Australian High Schoolers, and High Speed, High Tech Vocabulary Empowerment

by Robert Oliphant
Columnist EducationNews.org
The Australian government’s recent decision to provide every high school student with a computer makes plenty of sense as an object lesson for President-elect Obama and his administrative appointees. So does its sense of urgency at a time in world history when the USA, like Australia and other nations, can expect a long, hard-ball economic recovery demanding the productive best from its high tech workforce across the board, not just a few bearded boffins puttering about in cushy labs.

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