Parent Rights a Top Priority for Education Responsiveness (Published by Tunya Audain In Education Advisory on January 13, 2009, Accountability, Parent Involvement in Schools and Parent Rights) How well parents exercise their rights determines what degree or quality of services they get in public schools. It is quite different… Read more
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Public Education Does not Mean Government Schools
Continuing to add to Private/Public debate…This SECOND essay was published by our local newspaper education blog on the topic of meeting with the Minister of Education. The issue arose, again, limiting funds to private schools and giving them to public schools. BIG Difference between Public Education and Government… Read more
State Schooling vs Public Education
Private/public schools issues keep recurring. These debates are healthy but they can be divisive and unhelpful at times. It should be very instructive to explore these issues more thoroughly in the 21st Century as we consider different viewpoints through various lenses — history, economics, politics/ideologies, etc. I will be adding… Read more
Starting Schools with Nobel Winning Principles
Responsive Schools Key to Good Society: Nobel Winner It takes a political scientist to unravel the economics of citizens effectively and efficiently managing their own affairs and that of their immediate communities. In other words, self-governance works. Provided there is limited central state interference and provided powerful self-interested insiders… Read more
Decades of Education Reform Deceit Must End
Education: “Talk the Talk, But Skip the Walk” by Tunya Audain, Nov. 13, 2009 Nat Hentoff, writing for the Village Voice (New York) in the ‘70’s said: “Public education is the biggest consumer fraud ever.” At 84 he is still working, producing research and opinion pieces on things like… Read more