Category Archives: Education
If your life were a book
by cheri block We all have a life story. It has a plot and subplots, many settings, and a host of characters. Most of us like to focus on our life theme. We might remember ourselves in this way: My … Continue reading
The Atlanta Teachers’ Onion, then and now
by cheri block Reading this morning about the teachers’ union in Atlanta, Georgia, blaming their conspiratorial cheating on the tests themselves, as if tests were life forms, reminded me of why I abhor the teachers’ union: it is a bureaucratic … Continue reading
Oiling a wheel
by cheri block We are all teachers in some way. The best teachers are patient and knowledgeable. They usually like to laugh. I read a marvelous quotation about the Art of Teaching yesterday. It goes like this: To teach another … Continue reading
Only then can the fun begin
by Mrs. Sabraw Good morning students, welcome to Room N-9. You may be wondering what the N stands for. Oh sure, you might think that just because this whole wing is the N-wing that N-9 refers to one room in … Continue reading
The See Clearly Method
by cheri block I remember a radio promotion spot that ran for several years called the See Clearly Method. As I understood it, one could avoid, or even throw away, eye glasses and contact lenses after enrolling in such a … Continue reading
Highway 50-50 and Huck’s Spiritual Gifts
by cheri block Deciding to make a bee-line to Chicago was Hizzoner’s idea. With that decision, we turned off of our beloved Highway 50 at Emporia, Kansas. Should we drive through Iowa and come into Illinois at Molliene so we … Continue reading
My thesis, Entry Three: The Prospectus
by cheri block The Prospectus (with a capital P) is due on Friday, September 21, 2012. If I cannot make that deadline, then I must wait until January to submit it. The Judge nudges me, interrupting my yoga stretches … Continue reading
I’m giving you a referral, you little twit
by cheri block Please note: Part 1 of “What’s wrong with California Public Education?” I walked by Stanford’s School of Education on Monday afternoon on my way to a class called The Politics of Humanitarianism. Cynically. I stopped at Coupa … Continue reading
Cheri Block and The University of the Pacific
by cheri block Forty years ago last month, I graduated from The University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. That day in the Central Valley was hotter than the Mohave Desert in August. I was the commencement speaker at the … Continue reading
The Happy Couple
by cheri block Meet Harvey and Helen, two marine iguanas (yes, marine iguanas). My professor, Carter A. Hunt, sent me this photograph yesterday from the Galapagos Islands, along with his gracious suggestions for my latest long paper. I have been … Continue reading
