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Education Issues from the consumer perspective...

Education issues are often presented as a matter of funding priority, and an administrative problem to be solved from the top down. Little attention is given to education from the consumer’s perspective... and that’s the most important angle!

I've been a consumer of public education for 31 years of my life; first as a student and then as a parent - and that relationship continues as a taxpayer even though my kids are out of school. That's why I created this special section of my website - because there's nothing more important than how we "hand the baton" to the next generation.

Businesses succeed or fail on the very question of whether they can see things from their customer’s point of view If the business happens to be a monopoly or near-monopoly, it can go on failing for decades while consumers throw more money at it...

Education & Youth Issues

- 20 Radical Ideas for Schools
- Class size reform , right and wrong way
- Cursive handwriting
- Ban Backpacks in School?
- How to Grow Up
- Open Lunch in high schools
- Respect for children
- Schools - what are they trying to do?
- Training a generation of trivia masters

... and ADD/Learning Disability issues

- ADD Support Group of McLean County, IL
- Medication for ADD/ADHD
- Symptoms of ADD/ADHD
- Learning disability , what it’s like
- Diagnosis vs. Label
- Boredom is a symptom, not a sin
- The Thalamic Gain Point
- What Maslow overlooked
- Creativity is not a disorder
- Tired of ADD


Respect is carried not in great, bold proclamations, but in small moments of surprising intimacy & empathy. - Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, Harvard Prof. of Education, in Respect: An Exploration.

It’s not that poor kids can’t learn; it’s just that poor kids are going to bad schools.
- Jim Murphy, founder of Chicago International Charter School, which provides top-school opportunities for kids from ‘tough neighborhoods.’

What happened to classroomwindow.com? I moved the content here because it was just too much to take care of two websites. I’ll keep the old address working, though - you can still get here by typing www.classroomwindow.com into your browser.
- GW

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