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The Future of Online Education

Posted on March 24, 2013 by drjstewart

Free courses from MIT and Harvard are available at edX. This is not an endorsement of that site, but an opportunity to ask a question: What are the implications for K-12 Public Education? __________________________________ Note: The link to the video in … Continue reading →

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Competition: No Panacea for Public Education (III)

Posted on January 27, 2013 by drjstewart

If competition is the panacea for public education, then before it is introduced and expanded in the Texas K-12 Public Education System examine its results in institutions in which it has been in place for decades: the Texas public higher … Continue reading →

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Competition: No Panacea for Public Education (II)

Posted on January 21, 2013 by drjstewart

In the first blog of this multi-part series, data was presented that should lead one to question the belief that competition is the cure-all for public education. Competition has been in place for decades in Texas’s four-year institutions of  higher … Continue reading →

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Competition: No Panacea for Public Education

Posted on January 1, 2013 by drjstewart

Texas’s public institutions of higher education compete for their students. If competition is the panacea for K-12 public education, then data from Texas’s higher education system should support that belief system. The Data For the fall 2005 cohort, “[the] number … Continue reading →

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Midlothian Education Foundation Golf Tournament

Posted on July 19, 2012 by drjstewart

On October 5, 2012, the Midlothian Education Foundation (MEF) hosts its annual golf tournament at Mansfield National Golf Club. Tee time is 12:30 p.m. More information can be found at MEF Golf Tournament. There are a thousand great things about … Continue reading →

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Your TRS Pension

Posted on July 19, 2012 by drjstewart

Earlier in the year, I posted a blog (Your Retirement Plan) that shared a site that (1) contrasted Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution (two very important terms as they relate to TRS; and a site that shared (2) The Truth … Continue reading →

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