The debacle of Race to the Top, Common Core State Standards, and standardized testing continues to metastasize into an out of control disease, and many parents are becoming aware of the pernicious effects on their children’s school experience.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘All That Fall,’ A Radio Play by Samuel Beckett
Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon are wonderful in Samuel Beckett's radio play directed by Trevor Nunn.
Read More »The Anniversary of the Crash of Flight 587 – A Silence Too Loud for Words
Family members and friends of the victims all have no choice but to never forget, even though it will sometimes seem that other people wish you did.
Read More »Veteran’s Day – Remembering Why We Celebrate November 11, 1918
Brave men and women volunteer, go forward against all odds, and do what most people would not be able or willing to do. They are like those firefighters on 9-11 who went up while everyone else came down.
Read More »The Unbearable Lightness of Virtual Being
Can we rest in peace and forgive the online ignorance that no doubt will persist long after we have all passed from our actual and virtual lives to the evanescence of digital forevermore?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The English Bride’ by Lucile Lichtblau
An interrogation room, and two separated suspects, once lovers, questioned by a Mossad agent about a terrorist act they may have committed. Whose story should you believe?
Read More »How Brick-and-Mortars Can Compete – And Are Competing – with the Web
Today's shopper is a sophisticated creature. When a customer comes to your store rather than buying online, he or she wants to interact with another human being.
Read More »Time Change – We All Time Travel Whether We Want to Or Not
Our worries about time are a pressing human need to control that which is out of bounds.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Jericho’ by Jack Canfora
Jericho by Jack Canfora is a play about healing from devastating, traumatic events. Is it possible to recover? Is it possible to eventually move on? Perhaps, for some...
Read More »Brain Tumors Don’t Play Favorites, Reports ‘NY Daily News’
About 688,000 Americans are diagnosed with a brain tumor every year. Of these, about 140,000 are malignant.
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