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A friend sent along a few political cartoons. More propaganda, I mused. A few days laterI came across a Bill Moyers interview with Marty Kaplan, director of USC's Norman Lear Center and an entertainment industry veteran.The Moyers interview vindicated, point by point, my rant below responding to the many ways propaganda continues to influence all...
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Lynn has been working with a group of committed educators to get the standardized monkey off our kid's backs.Also see http://ttfuture.org/whats-new/events/featured_interviewHow to Increase Graduation RatesLynn StoddardIf School District Superintendents want to increase graduation rates, they should not tighten the screws on teachers to standardize...
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We all know that nurturing cooperative, creative, egalitarian individuals and societies is essential. The key that establishes this is turned very early. Research physiologist James Prescott, surgeon-epidemiologist researcher Michel Odent, author Joseph Chilton Pearce and clinical psychologist and researcher David Chamberlain have been saying and...
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A friend sent along a few political cartoons. More propaganda, I mused. A few days later I came across a Bill Moyers interview with Marty Kaplan, director of USC's Norman Lear Center and an entertainment industry veteran.The Moyers interview vindicated, point by point, my rant below responding to the many ways propaganda continues to influence all...
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Matt Monarch of Raw Food World contacted me a few weeks ago with an invitation to contribute to their Conscious Parenting Summit, a collection of interviews with a wide variety of conscious parenting advocates. And guess what? I hold the distinguished position of being the only male in the group, which is indeed an honor. Matt and I had a...
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We all know that nurturing cooperative, creative, egalitarian individuals and societies is essential. The key that establishes this is turned very early. Research physiologist James Prescott, surgeon-epidemiologist researcher Michel Odent, author Joseph Chilton Pearce and clinical psychologist and researcher David Chamberlain have been saying and...
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Walking to the office I laughed at the myth that governments are by or for the people. Looking back to the days of the Vikings, the so called age of discovery, colonialism, imperialism, the BIG Lies that resulted in the rape for oil of Iraq and Libya, the planned turning of the ‘war on terror’ on the people, full body airport scanning, GPS...
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Learning and performance are ‘state specific.’ Optimum states lead to optimum performance. This is true for athletes in the Zone and for you and I as parents. What is the Zone? Can the same optimum qualities be applied to parenting? Find out tomorrow, Friday March 9 with Michael Mendizza on Family First – Voice America.Family First broadcasts live...
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