State School Board Member Calls on AG to Investigate Campaign Finance
From the Dothan Eagle State school board member Betty Peters asked Attorney General Troy King for help Monday night. Betty Peters believes that if you’re going to get something done, you’ve got to take it to the top. The district 2 state school board member did just...
Dothan Magazine
Betty was interviewed in Dothan Magazine in August of 2009 Part I
Courage Under Fire
"Courage Under Fire" - an interview with Betty Peters.
Much More to Chancellor Salary Story Than What Was Reported
by Betty Peters District 2 Representative State Board of Education Many newspapers recently ran an article by AP reporter Desiree Hunter about the Alabama Community College System’s proposed search for a new chancellor. Apparently it generated several editorials. I...
Can Education Schools Be Saved?
A Speech by John Stone at AEI on June 9, 2003 Ladies and Gentlemen, Since the sixties, I have taught educational psychology at 4 universities. I have been in the College of Education at East Tennessee State University since the seventies. ETSU was founded as a normal...
Future of Teaching Profession Keynote
Future of Teaching Profession Keynote, December 6, 2008
Professor Do Your Job!
In Stanley Fish's new book, "Professor, Do Your Job," he writes, "The only advocacy that should go on in the classroom is the advocacy of what James Murphy has identified as the intellectual virtues: thoroughness, perseverance, intellectual honesty; all concepts of...
Newsweek’s “Best Schools” Propaganda Machine
by Professor Allen Quist Newsweek has once again released its "100 best high schools" feature article (May 26, 2008 issue). Newsweek has been highlighting similar stories on what it calls the "100 best" American high schools each spring since 1998. Unfortunately,...
Working On the Work: An Action Plan for Teacher, Principals, and Superintendents by Phil Schlechty
This is a review by Sandy Clevenger In Phil Schlechty’s book, "Working On the Work: An Action Plan for Teacher, Principals, and Superintendents", I was struck by some of the statements made in this book. Many of the statements directed toward teachers are things...
Education’s “Wag the Dog” Geniuses Lost
by Dick Kantenberger Guest Columnist EducationNews.org It is like someone shouted "FIRE" in a theater, but nobody moved. Is the theater empty? No, it's full of people, but still nobody moved or even cared.We are losing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of...