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All change!
Once education was left to teachers, now it’s one of the most politically sensitive issues out there and Michael Gove has jumped in to the debate with both feet.
May be we are about to go through yet another period of change. No wonder both teachers and students feel ‘punch drunk’.
http://www.economist.com/node/17581696?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/ar/chalkface
Just where to our values come from?
As the American celebrated Thanks giving and enjoyed a four-day holiday some were asking how the puritan dream has played out. Has it delivered all that was once hoped for?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/opinion/24hall.html?WT.mc_id=OP-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-PLP-112510-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click
Sorry but it is relevant!
Sara Palin has written another book, well a conservative ghostwriter has ‘helped her’. 49% of Americans say they don’t know who she is – where have they been over the last six months? With Obama looking vulnerable in 2012 and the Congress no longer a strong Democratic territory perhaps we should begin to think about the Hockey Mum?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/23/palin.book/index.html?npt=NP1
Keep warm..