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12.7.09 - Ron Isaac - If workers keep their mouths shut, their noses clean and stop busting chops and bucking their bosses, they will, if management sees fit, be paid fairly so that, provided they are not ingrates or spendthrifts

Ron Issac - 10.19.09
Columnist EducationNews.org
On September 30, New York's Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign announced a plan to create 100 new charter schools in the city.

by Ron Isaac - 9.4.09
Columnist EducationNews.org
A teacher in Grimsby, England was recently suspended and is threatened with termination for “bringing the school into disrepute.” Her offense was that in a private conversation on Facebook she referred to a parti cular class as “just as bad” as another class on the grade. She said that and nothing more.

Ron Isaac - 8.31.09
Columnist EducationNews.org
According to a proposed update of the Texas high school his tory standards curriculum, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who brought us such programs as social security, does not qualify as a “significant political and social leader in the United States.

Ron Isaac - July 12, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org
No need to do a verbal pirouette. Let’s state it outright without caveats: it is indeed a birthright for all Americans to have quality health care regardless of their station in society and circumstance of life.

by Ron Isaac
Columnist EducationNews.org
"Work Makes You Free!"  By order of California's Governor Schwarzeneggar, these historic words, in his blood and favor, might

Ron Isaac - June 17, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org
Most EdNews readers no doubt remember the supersonic Concorde commercial aircraft that was retired from service a few years ago because it was economically unviable.

 Ron Isaac - June 8, 2009
Columnist EducationNews.org
One of the great annual events on the pedagogical calendar has traditionally been the End-Term Party. Each school had one and almost every staff member attended: teachers, paras, secretaries, clinicians, supervisors, aides, food handlers, custodians.