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By Donna Garner - I guess because I have been active in education reform in Texas, a person from California asked me for my opinion on Dr. Rod Paige (Superintendent of Houston ISD), Gov. George W. Bush's choice for U. S. Secretary of Education. For what it is worth, here is my reply:

In a front-page New York Times article last week, admissions officers from the nation's top-rated colleges bemoaned the fact that new students were arriving on their campuses drained and frazzled after competing for places in their hallowed halls.

As we read the N.C. Schools First in America 2010 report, announced by Gov. Jim Hunt this week, we thought immediately of National Public Radio's Lake Wobegon.

By Patrick Groff
Professor of Education Emeritus
San Diego State University
At this point in time a new attitude toward public schools is growing among parents, within the business community, throughout the tax-paying public, and even in its body of elected representatives.

by Dean L. Kalahar, M.Ed. - Not long ago high school was a place where students learned to be mentally tough through self discipline, personal responsibility and an honorable commitment to duty.

by Fred A. Baughman Jr., M.D.  - Invalid diagnostic criteria for ADHD:  Pediatrician William B. Carey (Philadelphia Children's Hospital) testified at the November 16-18, 1998, NIH, Consensus Conference:

The National Education Association (NEA) — the world's largest union with teachers, clerical staff, bus drivers, school health officials, food service employees, maintenance staff, students and retirees among its members

On November 13, 2000, Achieve, Inc. and CBE (Council for Basic Education) released their evaluation of Minnesota's Profile of Learning. The Achieve/CBE Report is totally consistent with the conclusions of Minnesota's teachers, students and parents. 

I have been teaching creative writing for over two decades at Boston University and before that led workshops in fiction and composition at Queens College.