Stimulas Money and Special Education

How should money be spent?

Spend it where it will do the most good for the most people for the longest time possible.

Having said that mouthful, the next step is to define "good".

Why not ask local school districts what they need . Check the stimulus package. Does it say anything about need assessment?

Pontification from either direction, top down or down up does not make any sense.

Here we go again. The flies will spoil good meet!

Nexus: Knowledge, Teaching and Learning

Work in progress...

A set of limits applicable to knowledge, teaching and learning is necessary to help establish a working paradigm.

• Knowledge is information identified and organized through objective experimentation, and social validation or consensus.
• Teaching assumes a teacher who strives to convey directly knowledge or facilitates the construction and discovery of knowledge by any learner.
• Learning assumes any person interested in the discovery and construction of knowledge for self improvement and the improvement of others.

Possible connections between knowledge, teaching and learning follows:

• All elements require objectivity
• All elements necessitate free flow of information.
• All elements are interactive

Your ideas...

School: Like A Temple

All money changers must leave now.
The work of education is not for sale.

Money without vision will fail education.
Vision without science will fail.

Foremost, Dignity must reign for all.
Shall we begin our task earnestly?

I'll Be With You Always!

Oh, another day peaks through the morning haze.
I walk alone down a dusty road that does not faze.
I'll be with you always!

School building can be seen just down the road.
My thoughts run wild and I forebode.
I'll be with you always!

Doors reach out without a kind enbrace,
My legs refuse to pick up the pace.
I'll be with you always!

Stop, is this a place for me?
My body shakes for all to see.
I'll be with you always!

Past that threshold and face the day.
Please, please listen to what I say.
I'll be with you always!

Never fear, my brave cohorts.
For I share your lonely hearts.
I'll be with you always!

Whisper to Me: First Day of School

Quiet now!
I'm so excited.
But, so small.

Quiet now!
Is there a place for me?
I don't need much space.

Quiet now!
I shutter...
She touches me gently.

Reader thoughts are welcome.
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Shout now!
It's just like home.
Yours and mine.

Rain, Rain, Go Away

No doubt in my mind, a leaky school roof can interfere with learning.
But, fixing one does not assure learning by a long shot.

And, high dollar breakfast programs will fill empty tummies.
But, not being hungry dose not assure learning by a long shot.

Just how we get from roofs that don't leak and full tummies to students that learn to read, write, speak and count is still an unsolved mystery.

Education desperately needs some form of stimulus package that identifies the real culprits undermining learning experience for so many thousands of our young people.