Author: teacherken

Tim Kaine, who WILL be our next governor in Virginia, sent those on his email list a wonderful piece that I think all here should see.   Since it is not copyrighted, I will offer the entire text below the fold.   Since...

since Henry Hyde was kind enough to give us an opening. I originally posted this as a comment to the first diary on dailykos on Hyde’s remarks yesterday.  That diary had a factual error, which is noted in the expanded...

My name is Kenneth Bernstein.  On various electronic fora I am known as Teacherken.  Much of my life has been an inchoate search for meaning.   During my almost 59 years of life I spent time in a variety of...

Today the sun is shining.  Yesterday we met many of next year’s 9th grade students and their parents at an open house (I was there as a boys’ soccer coach).  On Thursday I was at the Cosmos Club in DC as my...

Hello all.  Was not intending to post a diary today.  Just received an email about a new report, authored by Stanford University Professor of Education Linda Darling-Hammond, SRN Associate Director of Assessment &...