teaching Archives – https://ezkool.com/category/teaching/ Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:41:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ezkool.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ezkool-logo-75png.png teaching Archives – https://ezkool.com/category/teaching/ 32 32 12773863 Thirty Years an Educator https://ezkool.com/2014/11/thirty-years-educator/ https://ezkool.com/2014/11/thirty-years-educator/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:20:51 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=56288 Thirty years ago today, I walked into York Preparatory School on New York’s Upper East Side for my first day as a high school history teacher. I had no formal training as a teacher except for my degree in History from Syracuse University. I had been working in advertising for a Madison Avenue firm that […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/11/thirty-years-educator/feed/ 0 56288 In Education, Teachers Must Lead the Way https://ezkool.com/2014/09/in-education-teachers-must-lead-the-way/ https://ezkool.com/2014/09/in-education-teachers-must-lead-the-way/#respond Tue, 02 Sep 2014 00:10:44 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=54414 Aside from the December holiday season, the back-to-school late August and early September rush has the most profound effects on the United States. Shopping patterns change, traffic gets worse, and the general tenor of every community shifts to accommodate the children and adults who work in education. Welcome to this year’s edition. Some things have […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2014/09/in-education-teachers-must-lead-the-way/feed/ 0 54414 The High Schoolization Of College https://ezkool.com/2013/08/the-high-schoolization-of-college/ https://ezkool.com/2013/08/the-high-schoolization-of-college/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:19:41 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=42085 Last week, President Obama made a series of speeches about making higher education affordable, which of course would be a great idea if we really had a socialist system and the government could tell schools what to charge. The problem is that we have a quasi-meritocracy with a bit of market capitalism mixed in, and […]

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]]> https://ezkool.com/2013/08/the-high-schoolization-of-college/feed/ 0 42085 Osama bin Laden Applies For Teaching Job in India https://ezkool.com/2013/02/osama-bin-laden-applies-for-teaching-job-in-india/ https://ezkool.com/2013/02/osama-bin-laden-applies-for-teaching-job-in-india/#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:19:43 +0000 http://ezkool.com/?p=24895 On his registration form for one of the new teaching positions in India, the candidate who called himself Osama Bin Laden said his father’s name was Bill Clinton. He was one of hundreds of bizarre false names given by chancers apparently hoping to secure jobs in schools in Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. Perhaps the […]

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