The Nation’s political leaders are finally addressing a long-brewing problem. They are concerned about the declining ability of golfers and their golf instructors. Since most of our national leaders play golf at some point, they claim to have a strong background in golf techniques and golf instructional practices. Based on their experiences, they are placing the blame on the golf instructors and their associations for the lack of ability of our nation’s golfers and the lack of dominance in international competition.
Category: Humor
Football Adopts Education Like Standards
NFL Adopts Common Core Playbook–Copying Education Reforms
by John J. Viall
(Washington, D. C.) In a surprise news conference today U. S. Secretary of Education Arne 
Duncan and National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell announced plans to improve NFL performance in coming seasons.
Unlike news conferences on education, which draw sparse crowds, representatives from hundreds of newspapers, television and radio networks, and ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN for Kids and ESPN Tales from the Crypt were in attendance.
Why Schools Aren’t Like a Businesses
Valerie Strauss, Washington Post –
Larry Cuban’s 2004 book “The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can’t be Businesses,” is nearly a decade old but still highly relevant to the education reform debate. In the introduction, Cuban introduces readers to Jamie Vollmer, a former ice cream company executive who became an education advocate and author of the book ” Schools Cannot Do It Alone.” He quotes Vollmer about “an epiphany” he had in the 1980s:
Jamie Vollmer – “If I ran my business the way you people operate your schools, I wouldn’t be in business very long.”
Some of the Best Poltical Cartoons relating to Education
The Best cartoons and more…. (And thanks to Larry Cuban for some of these.)
