by Barry Fagin | Sep 19, 2011 | Education
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 4-19-07} It’s déjà vu all over again. Is Colorado public education in the Twilight Zone? Is Bill Murray going to show up at the Capitol, reliving a mathematical “Groundhog Day”? That’s how I feel after seeing the latest CSAP...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 8, 2011 | Education, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-24-06} My son has lived with me for one hundred sixty-two thousand, five hundred and twenty-eight hours. We’re now down to the last forty-eight. Along with thousands of eighteen-year-olds around the country, he’ll head off to college this...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 9, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law
There is little dispute that education is a constant crisis issue. Talk to any teacher and they’ll tell you the same nightmare of constant testing and very little learning. Students are not allowed the fail, and if they dare, the blame is on the school or...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 28, 2011 | Business & Economics, Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 3-9-06} Do all high school teachers hate capitalism? Or just the ones in Colorado? By now, you’ve probably heard of geography teacher Jay Bennish and his 60’s-era classroom rants. Bennish delivered a 20-minute...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 21, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2-23-06} Were you at the last D11 Town Meeting? I was. Bet you weren’t. I bet you weren’t because I counted maybe 30 people tops. I know we’re all busy, and not everybody lives in District 11. But an...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 14, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2-9-06} Last week I was invited to a conference on school reform. I spoke about the sorry state of mathematics education in America and how we can make it better. You’d think math would be a bipartisan issue, but...
