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Education News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the education facet of life. Education News Blog: Education-World News 1 Rock the state’s education world with stone turning: Monday, August 20, 2007  Talk may be cheap. Still, it’s refreshing to hear new Kentucky Board of Education chairman Joe Brothers talk about making “the kids” his priority. Brothers, an Elizabethtown plant manager, told reporters: “I have no agenda, other than the kids of Kentucky.” Hopefully, this isn’t just feel-good talk intended to mitigate the disaster led by former chairman Keith Travis involving the hiring of Commissioner Barbara Erwin. She resigned before ever coming to work in Kentucky. Travis handled the fiasco with the kind of ineptness Erwin displayed in some of her previous jobs. Brothers also told reporters: “This board will leave no stone unturned until we find a commissioner that is worthy of our state.” So far, Brothers gets an “A” for communicating a clear vision: the kids come first. But leadership is more than just talk. It’s also about action, the right action. Hiring a competent, reform-minded commissioner willing to make the students, not the system, top priority – even if it ticks off the bureaucrats – would show that Brothers’ actions speak louder than his words. Education News Blog: Education World News 1 (Continued) The board could find numerous candidates without turning over any stones. These likely would be lifelong bureaucrats who have shuffled along in the system and now want to do the same as Kentucky’s top education leader. They want the money or prestige. It’s a safe bet none would vigorously challenge the status quo. The status quo isn’t close to good enough. During its April meeting, the board heard from education department officials that less than 40 percent of the state’s public schools – and only 12 percent of its high schools – are on track to meet requirements of 100-percent academic proficiency in critical subject areas by 2014. “We have to do better,” Brothers said. It seems like he means it. However, talk is cheap – probably because, as an anonymous wag discerned, “supply exceeds demand.” But stone turners? They are in short supply. Education News Blog Comment: We coin slogans…and we prepare syllabi…and we write texts…and we appoint QUALIFIED teachers…and we PREACH students. We do not teach. We preach. That is what our philosophy of education is! And that is what the scene of education worldwide is! I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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