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Peter McBride's over 30 years' teaching experience includes elementary through high school, private and adult schools, C.S.U.N. master teacher, and University Phoenix presenter. He worked as a private school administrator and pioneered class-created video. His guitar, singing voice, and mantra, "It's for the kids", have always been essential in his classroom. Contact Peter if you have any comments, thoughts or suggestions.

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Teachers' grades mean nothing

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Schools in the United States are gradually beginning to regard teachers more as proctors than instructors. The evaluation of a students' progress...
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Ursula Burns - a scientific experiment in the making

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

President Obama has selected Xerox Chief Executive Ursula Burns to help U.S. students improve upon mathematics, science, engineering, and technology...
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Wal-Mart case with teacher-practitioner Heather Ellis causes more concerns for Louisiana

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 · 1 comment

Twenty-four year old Heather Ellis, infamous due to her actions at a Missouri Wal-Mart three years ago, has taken a leave of absence from her one year...
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Wal Mart case with teacher-practitioner Heather Ellis causes more concerns for Louisiana

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 · 7 comments

Twenty-four year old Heather Ellis, infamous due to her actions at a Missouri Wal Mart three years ago, has taken a leave of absence from her one year...
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If President Obama could explain Afghanistan to his children

Friday, November 13th, 2009 · 2 comments

If President Obama could play teacher to his children, with Washington as his school setting, and explain why we are at war in Afghanistan so that...
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Let's have a war on algebra

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Eight year olds in the United States have lived their whole lives with our country at war. Arguably, thirteen year olds have only known our country to...
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Grant money - now we must teach to the test

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“…we want you all to understand that there’s nothing more important than what you're doing right here at this school,"...
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Student values - I cannot make it better

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The following is a comment submitted by "Christel" in response to my article entitled, "Drinking teens discover Superbad is a...
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Need to improve teacher recruitment and preparation not first priority

A just-released white paper by the National Academy of Education reveals that teacher retention, not recruitment and training, is the number one...
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Sexual assault - tip of the iceberg is showing

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In Richmond, California, a fifteen year old girl leaves a homecoming dance, mixes in with a group drinking alcohol up the street from the school, and...
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