Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Bloom’s Already Off the Rose

By Ray Watkins | Published: January 26, 2009
Despite rising unemployment and a cratering economy, the GOP has placed a hold on the nomination of President Obama’s choice for Secretary of Labor, the pro-worker Hilda Solis. The issue at stake is the Employee Free Choice Act, which aims to give workers a level playing field by allowing workers to choose a majority sign-up [...]
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Writing Instruction in the Age of Digital Reproduction

By Ray Watkins | Published: January 23, 2009
CAN COMPUTERS TEACH CHILDREN TO write better? Michael Jenkins,who teaches language arts at Estancia Middle School in central New Mexico, tells the story of Maria (a pseudonym), who so struggled to put her ideas on paper that she used to cry whenever he gave the class a writing assignment. That was before Jenkins began using [...]
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