If there’s one thing we all want, regardless of our politics, it’s to see Connecticut rising — as a place to live, work and retire — to the top where it surely belongs.
Opinion
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Op-ed: Connecticut Rising: What sore eyes long to see
If there’s one thing we all want, regardless of our politics, it’s to see Connecticut rising — as a place to live, work and retire — to the top where it surely belongs.
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Op-ed: Evaluating CT teachers based on student academic performance
Why would we think that a teacher, standing in front of 25 young faces, could possibly be the ONLY influence on whether a student learns and remembers the information presented that particular day and each and every day?
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Op-ed: It’s time to raise wages
Today we are amid another crisis, and this time it is killing our fellow Americans right here at home. The culprit? Poverty.
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Op-ed: Thank you, CT Mirror
The CT Mirror is…an extraordinarily important – and these days essential – source of information about what’s going on in our state, and in the nation and world.
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Op-ed: Flawed at the core
Connecticut should create new national standards, in an open and transparent way, written by those who know how to teach, with the goal of developing students’ minds and promoting their achievement as complex thinkers and motivated learners.
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Op-ed: Common Core: A terrible mistake
Terrible mistakes are being made by education reformers. A “one size fits all” approach to education is detrimental to children/students and robs teachers of their ability to be effective educators.
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Op-ed: Connecticut deserves an open, transparent, accessible government
Are we well served by our current insular, inaccessible state government? No.
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Op-ed: How Holi(days) can promote unity
The approach of the Hindu festival Holi suggests ways that — in the U.S. as in India — holidays can bring people together across religions and cultures.
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Op-ed: Time to act: An outline for state revenue accountability in CT
We have long known our state/local revenue structure is unbalanced, unfair, lopsided and adds to the constant need of smoke and mirrors to reflect something that resembles a balanced budget.
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Op-ed: Common Core — an unproven ‘reform’ movement
I would strongly recommend that the legislators eliminate the Common Core State Standards and rescind any laws that promote “one-size-fits-all” curricula, high stakes testing, unprotected data storage and a regressive teacher evaluation process. In my opinion, the current “reform” initiative threatens all that is good in educational practice these days while only offering unfounded promises that its “reforms” will make any real difference in solving the politically untenable problem of poverty and inequitable educational opportunity in our society.
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Op-ed: The challenge: Open communities
The population of color in Connecticut has grown from 12% in 1980 to 29% in 2010, and if it were not for this increase, the state would have negative population growth. Diversity is Connecticut’s future, including the future of its economy.
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Op-ed: Connecticut: It’s time to tackle taxes
We must look at fixing possibly the biggest single barrier to Connecticut’s grabbing hold of its bright future … our badly broken, antiquated, unfair tax system.
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Op-ed: Common Core and other education mandates are the problems
Strip the mandates and return control and the money to the towns and cities and let them, in conjunction with parents and teachers, best decide how to educate their children and use their resources.
