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From Character to Color was written to explore Critical Race Theory
from logical, moral, and educational standpoints, as these relate
to history, people and racial groups. This book is also written to
explain reasons why it is a bad choice to allow the Critical Race
Theory to grow unabated and continue to infect the nation.
Understanding Radicalism: How It Affects What’s Happening in
Education and Student’s Overall examines and explores the
ever-growing trend to use education, outside groups, and social
media as agencies of indoctrination and moral suasion, to capture
the imaginations, thus prompting students to question their own
racial and gender identities.
Understanding Radicalism: How It Affects What’s Happening in
Education and Student’s Overall examines and explores the
ever-growing trend to use education, outside groups, and social
media as agencies of indoctrination and moral suasion, to capture
the imaginations, thus prompting students to question their own
racial and gender identities.
From Character to Color was written to explore Critical Race Theory
from logical, moral, and educational standpoints, as these relate
to history, people and racial groups. This book is also written to
explain reasons why it is a bad choice to allow the Critical Race
Theory to grow unabated and continue to infect the nation.
When the Secular Becomes Sacred: Religious Secular Humanism and its
Effects Upon America's Public Learning Institutions is an analysis
of American K-16 public learning institutions from a unique
perspective. Secular teachings, such as social-emotional learning,
and sexual and identity philosophies, are behind movements to
capture the minds and hearts of America's students. Contemporary
learning institutions resemble places of worship in several ways.
This book will explain how this is the case. From educational
philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes tactical
intersections between secular humanism and religion. In today's
secular culture there is strong evidence to support the notion that
worship of the self, the individual, has usurped the historically
sacred place reserved for a transcendent deity. The fact is that
this worship of the individual is certainly more fashionable and
attractive than traditional orthodoxy or evangelical theology, in a
today's society. Bolstering this self-worship are mandated
programs, such as those found in states' controversial
History-Social Science Frameworks, English-Language Arts
Frameworks, and new sex education programs. The intention of this
book is to provide the reader a realistic look into the effects of
religious humanism upon America's schools and students. Readers
will be challenged with the notion that separation of church and
state is being ignored for the political advantage of some.
Furthermore, the reader will be presented with the argument that
self-worship has become more attractive than traditional
Judeo-Christian religious teachings, leading to the individual
becoming both the worshipper and the object of such self-worship.
When the Secular Becomes Sacred: Religious Secular Humanism and its
Effects Upon America's Public Learning Institutions is an analysis
of American K-16 public learning institutions from a unique
perspective. Secular teachings, such as social-emotional learning,
and sexual and identity philosophies, are behind movements to
capture the minds and hearts of America's students. Contemporary
learning institutions resemble places of worship in several ways.
This book will explain how this is the case. From educational
philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes tactical
intersections between secular humanism and religion. In today's
secular culture there is strong evidence to support the notion that
worship of the self, the individual, has usurped the historically
sacred place reserved for a transcendent deity. The fact is that
this worship of the individual is certainly more fashionable and
attractive than traditional orthodoxy or evangelical theology, in a
today's society. Bolstering this self-worship are mandated
programs, such as those found in states' controversial
History-Social Science Frameworks, English-Language Arts
Frameworks, and new sex education programs. The intention of this
book is to provide the reader a realistic look into the effects of
religious humanism upon America's schools and students. Readers
will be challenged with the notion that separation of church and
state is being ignored for the political advantage of some.
Furthermore, the reader will be presented with the argument that
self-worship has become more attractive than traditional
Judeo-Christian religious teachings, leading to the individual
becoming both the worshipper and the object of such self-worship.
The Age of Teacher Shortages is a practical look at the reasons for
teacher shortages in schools across America, and suggests
solutions. These shortages are wide-reaching and becoming more
extensive with each passing year. Although the bulk of the teacher
shortages are within those which are state-trained and
conventionally credentialed, private schools are also reeling under
the pressure of insufficient staffing. Is there just a downturn in
adults desiring to be in the teaching profession, or are there
other elements at work? This book details elements within American
culture that are causing teachers to leave the profession early. In
addition to this attrition, the reasons less students are enrolling
in programs other than traditional teacher education programs are
also explored. Regardless the reasons for decreases in enrollment,
the effect are negative upon states, school districts, and families
across the United States. There are emergency efforts under way to
address teacher shortages. Departments of education and local
school districts are applying different certification and
credentialing strategies to both attract and keep teachers
employed. Many wonder what the overall, long-term effects of these
new methods of employing teachers will be upon education in
America. This book engages these questions, and more. In so doing,
it provides a realistic look into the impacts of teacher shortages,
alternative certifications, and causes of changes in twenty-first
century American culture.
The Teacher Exodus: Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the
Classrooms is an authentic examination of many of the reasons
public school teachers are leaving the profession. It also takes a
hard look at why students are no longer selecting teaching as their
career choice. American culture is at a tipping point and many
politicians and bureaucrats are tinkering with culture through
racial policies and social engineering, in efforts to empower
students, rather than stem the tide of teacher attrition. Teachers
are frustrated by requirements to implement social and intervention
programs that fall outside their training, which limits the moral
purpose they envisioned when they first entered the profession.
Across the nation, teachers are feeling marginalized and impacted
by policies handed down from above, which actually elevate students
over teachers. Teachers sense their profession has been reduced to
classroom monitoring and facilitating, which they did not sign up
for! They are restricted in their classroom management and must
employ a series of intervention strategies just to defend their
actions of discipline. If America is to reverse the trend of
teachers leaving classrooms, there must be genuinely supportive
efforts to reinvigorate adults to pursue teaching and bureaucrats
must release teachers to work their skills. There must be a
reversal of the mindset that teachers are leaving education because
education has left them. One way to do this is for bureaucrats and
education administrators to once again empower teachers to be the
local arbiters of education for their classrooms.
The Teacher Exodus: Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the
Classrooms is an authentic examination of many of the reasons
public school teachers are leaving the profession. It also takes a
hard look at why students are no longer selecting teaching as their
career choice. American culture is at a tipping point and many
politicians and bureaucrats are tinkering with culture through
racial policies and social engineering, in efforts to empower
students, rather than stem the tide of teacher attrition. Teachers
are frustrated by requirements to implement social and intervention
programs that fall outside their training, which limits the moral
purpose they envisioned when they first entered the profession.
Across the nation, teachers are feeling marginalized and impacted
by policies handed down from above, which actually elevate students
over teachers. Teachers sense their profession has been reduced to
classroom monitoring and facilitating, which they did not sign up
for! They are restricted in their classroom management and must
employ a series of intervention strategies just to defend their
actions of discipline. If America is to reverse the trend of
teachers leaving classrooms, there must be genuinely supportive
efforts to reinvigorate adults to pursue teaching and bureaucrats
must release teachers to work their skills. There must be a
reversal of the mindset that teachers are leaving education because
education has left them. One way to do this is for bureaucrats and
education administrators to once again empower teachers to be the
local arbiters of education for their classrooms.
Helping Parents Understand the Minds and Hearts of Generation Z
takes parents into the daily lives of their 24-7, wired-up
children. It allows parents and children to speak for themselves.
This highly practical book provides parents insights into how Gen Z
thinks, the ways their brains learn, and illustrates why children
of this technological generation believe and act the ways they do.
There are some red flags in American culture and smart technology
and digital devices are right there at the center of them all.
Students in Gen Z do not recall a time before the Internet and
smart technology. As a result, serious issues are arising in
American culture within Gen Z. These considerations have
implications for families and interpersonal relationships and will
also impact future economics, as more and more student from Gen Z
graduate college and enter the workforce. Parents will find this
book compelling and will be challenged to consider whether their
withdrawn, ear-budded children are addicted to their devices and
social media, and to where all of this might lead.
Helping Parents Understand the Minds and Hearts of Generation Z
takes parents into the daily lives of their 24-7, wired-up
children. It allows parents and children to speak for themselves.
This highly practical book provides parents insights into how Gen Z
thinks, the ways their brains learn, and illustrates why children
of this technological generation believe and act the ways they do.
There are some red flags in American culture and smart technology
and digital devices are right there at the center of them all.
Students in Gen Z do not recall a time before the Internet and
smart technology. As a result, serious issues are arising in
American culture within Gen Z. These considerations have
implications for families and interpersonal relationships and will
also impact future economics, as more and more student from Gen Z
graduate college and enter the workforce. Parents will find this
book compelling and will be challenged to consider whether their
withdrawn, ear-budded children are addicted to their devices and
social media, and to where all of this might lead.
The Entitled Generation: Helping Teachers Teach and Reach the Minds
and Hearts of Generation Z brings teachers into the twenty-first
century world of 24-7 technologically-wired up and social
media-driven students. This book asks teachers to consider
pragmatic and sensible ways to teach Gen Z and to understand the
differences between today's students and those of the past.
Teachers are offered keen insights by colleagues, in terms of how
Gen Z thinks, the various ways that males and females learn, and
the distractions and struggles each faces by device addiction
affecting today's classrooms. American culture is perpetuating the
notion that today's students are entitled to economic and social
outcomes on equal bases. Gen Z "feels" everyone should be treated
as equals, receiving the same rewards for unequal efforts, thus
promoting a feeling of entitlement. Teachers will understand the
reality of today's American classrooms. Even with the assumed
addiction to smart technology and social media, teachers can use
this to their advantage and reach the minds and hearts of Gen Z to
prepare them for their futures.
The Entitled Generation: Helping Teachers Teach and Reach the Minds
and Hearts of Generation Z brings teachers into the twenty-first
century world of 24-7 technologically-wired up and social
media-driven students. This book asks teachers to consider
pragmatic and sensible ways to teach Gen Z and to understand the
differences between today's students and those of the past.
Teachers are offered keen insights by colleagues, in terms of how
Gen Z thinks, the various ways that males and females learn, and
the distractions and struggles each faces by device addiction
affecting today's classrooms. American culture is perpetuating the
notion that today's students are entitled to economic and social
outcomes on equal bases. Gen Z "feels" everyone should be treated
as equals, receiving the same rewards for unequal efforts, thus
promoting a feeling of entitlement. Teachers will understand the
reality of today's American classrooms. Even with the assumed
addiction to smart technology and social media, teachers can use
this to their advantage and reach the minds and hearts of Gen Z to
prepare them for their futures.
The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again
changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core
is now optional and the role of Secretary of Education has been
limited by no longer incentivizing states, as done under Common
Core. This book analyzes the new direction today's schools must
pursue for student learning and their success beyond high school.
States and local educational agencies are once again empowered and
will have more authority over curriculum and assessment. Common
Sense Education includes samples from these states, ideas from
several universities which are retooling their teacher education
programs and focusing on teacher excellence, as well as schools
recalibrating their programs for student learning. This book
advocates for common sense education, uses a national survey to
provide parent and teacher perspectives, and suggests a new
paradigm for exciting twenty-first century high schools.
The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again
changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core
is now optional and the role of Secretary of Education has been
limited by no longer incentivizing states, as done under Common
Core. This book analyzes the new direction today's schools must
pursue for student learning and their success beyond high school.
States and local educational agencies are once again empowered and
will have more authority over curriculum and assessment. Common
Sense Education includes samples from these states, ideas from
several universities which are retooling their teacher education
programs and focusing on teacher excellence, as well as schools
recalibrating their programs for student learning. This book
advocates for common sense education, uses a national survey to
provide parent and teacher perspectives, and suggests a new
paradigm for exciting twenty-first century high schools.
Why are so many public school teachers, administrators, and coaches
choosing to become romantically and sexually involved with teenage
students and players? Since 2000, numbers of intimate relationships
between teachers and students have skyrocketed. Teacher arrests are
at all-time highs. Is there a correlation between these
relationships and communication and social technologies? This book
explores: *What is driving those in public and private education to
have romantic and sexual relationships with their students, and to
jeopardize their careers, families, reputations, and freedom? *What
roles do communication and social technologies play in feeding
teacher-student relationships? *Who is protecting teenagers from
predator-teachers and predator-coaches, in our schools? *Is there a
new phenomenon in schools: The Predator Teenage Student? *What
practical strategies can be put in place to protect teenagers from
sexual predators on our campuses? *The appropriate educational use
of communication technologies on high school campuses. This book is
provocative and relevant for educators at all levels, public and
private. It is also a must-read for professors, teachers-in
training, athletic and academic coaches, school administrators, and
parents.
America's Sex Culture: Its Impact on Teacher-Student Relationships
analyzes recent trends. It includes teacher arrests and student
false allegations, and why this culture has ensnared teachers and
students, and why it is one of the causes leading to arrests. This
second edition adds new material, including: An analysis if of
sex-trafficking and how this has impacted high schools and
colleges. Sex addiction and pornography and the effect each has on
today's students and teachers. Social media and how it has eased
its way into the lives of many. Furthermore, sex and pornography
are being debated at the state level. States are trying to
determine whether teachers in their off-hours can do whatever they
want and still keep their teaching jobs. Anecdotal evidence
concerning teacher arrests and why our nation is more sexualized
than ever. The impact of America's sex culture and its impact upon
the developing brains of students and how they relate to teachers.
Detoxing America Schools: From Social Agency to Academic Urgency
examines the issue of toxicity in public education institutions.
Today's students are exposed to personal beliefs, lifestyle
practices, and politicized educational policies-many of which are
in contrast to the values of their upbringing. The innate toxic
intentions of some teachers are revealed by their unabashed calls
for students to take sides through avenues of shaming and even
civil disobedience. Schools have become vessels of social agency.
The time has come to detox American education and to call for
teachers to return to the urgent, fundamental mission of educating
students academically. Too many teachers are following the paradigm
found on many college campuses, as they use prior experience to
stir up students and bring new levels of emotion into their
classrooms. The classroom environment has flipped and what was once
tolerance has become the new toxic intolerance. Fractious Americans
seem addicted to the use of polarized issues as social and
emotional intoxicants. Groups are strategic in seizing upon
differences to ensure augmentation and marginalization upon
ideological lines, intensified often by the flames of social media
and intolerant activism. College students emerging from Gen Z are
more radicalized from their time at college. Unless American
educators agree to step back from certain poisonous rhetoric and
noxious activism, our nation will continue to lose sight of the
academic urgency before us, and with it a generation of children.
Detoxing America Schools: From Social Agency to Academic Urgency
examines the issue of toxicity in public education institutions.
Today's students are exposed to personal beliefs, lifestyle
practices, and politicized educational policies-many of which are
in contrast to the values of their upbringing. The innate toxic
intentions of some teachers are revealed by their unabashed calls
for students to take sides through avenues of shaming and even
civil disobedience. Schools have become vessels of social agency.
The time has come to detox American education and to call for
teachers to return to the urgent, fundamental mission of educating
students academically. Too many teachers are following the paradigm
found on many college campuses, as they use prior experience to
stir up students and bring new levels of emotion into their
classrooms. The classroom environment has flipped and what was once
tolerance has become the new toxic intolerance. Fractious Americans
seem addicted to the use of polarized issues as social and
emotional intoxicants. Groups are strategic in seizing upon
differences to ensure augmentation and marginalization upon
ideological lines, intensified often by the flames of social media
and intolerant activism. College students emerging from Gen Z are
more radicalized from their time at college. Unless American
educators agree to step back from certain poisonous rhetoric and
noxious activism, our nation will continue to lose sight of the
academic urgency before us, and with it a generation of children.
America's Sex Culture: Its Impact on Teacher-Student Relationships
analyzes recent trends. It includes teacher arrests and student
false allegations, and why this culture has ensnared teachers and
students, and why it is one of the causes leading to arrests. This
second edition adds new material, including: An analysis if of
sex-trafficking and how this has impacted high schools and
colleges. Sex addiction and pornography and the effect each has on
today's students and teachers. Social media and how it has eased
its way into the lives of many. Furthermore, sex and pornography
are being debated at the state level. States are trying to
determine whether teachers in their off-hours can do whatever they
want and still keep their teaching jobs. Anecdotal evidence
concerning teacher arrests and why our nation is more sexualized
than ever. The impact of America's sex culture and its impact upon
the developing brains of students and how they relate to teachers.
Assaulted takes the reader into a multi-layered set of problems
that exists in public and private schools in America. Teachers are
being physically assaulted by students and parents, producing
lasting, or even career-ending injuries. Violence in schools today
has become bullying on steroids, and students are becoming viral
sensations amongst their peers. This book details physical and
sexual assaults, and verbal and emotional abuses that occur toward
teachers, both in person and Online. It contains personal stories,
teacher interviews, and national survey data, as it offers reasons
why assaults are occurring more frequently today. But the book does
not stop there. College professors and their relationships with
students also come under scrutiny. The author also challenges the
practice of mainstreaming special needs and special education
students, social justice and various identity movements, and the
impacts these programs have upon classrooms and schools. The reader
will realize students have more rights and protections than
teachers. However, teachers are standing for themselves. In some
cases teachers physically defend themselves, risking their careers.
What are the causes of this increase of violence in schools, and
what needs to be done? Assaulted provides serious answers to
questions unaddressed by many school districts in America.
The Age of Teacher Shortages is a practical look at the reasons for
teacher shortages in schools across America, and suggests
solutions. These shortages are wide-reaching and becoming more
extensive with each passing year. Although the bulk of the teacher
shortages are within those which are state-trained and
conventionally credentialed, private schools are also reeling under
the pressure of insufficient staffing. Is there just a downturn in
adults desiring to be in the teaching profession, or are there
other elements at work? This book details elements within American
culture that are causing teachers to leave the profession early. In
addition to this attrition, the reasons less students are enrolling
in programs other than traditional teacher education programs are
also explored. Regardless the reasons for decreases in enrollment,
the effect are negative upon states, school districts, and families
across the United States. There are emergency efforts under way to
address teacher shortages. Departments of education and local
school districts are applying different certification and
credentialing strategies to both attract and keep teachers
employed. Many wonder what the overall, long-term effects of these
new methods of employing teachers will be upon education in
America. This book engages these questions, and more. In so doing,
it provides a realistic look into the impacts of teacher shortages,
alternative certifications, and causes of changes in twenty-first
century American culture.
Assaulted takes the reader into a multi-layered set of problems
that exists in public and private schools in America. Teachers are
being physically assaulted by students and parents, producing
lasting, or even career-ending injuries. Violence in schools today
has become bullying on steroids, and students are becoming viral
sensations amongst their peers. This book details physical and
sexual assaults, and verbal and emotional abuses that occur toward
teachers, both in person and Online. It contains personal stories,
teacher interviews, and national survey data, as it offers reasons
why assaults are occurring more frequently today. But the book does
not stop there. College professors and their relationships with
students also come under scrutiny. The author also challenges the
practice of mainstreaming special needs and special education
students, social justice and various identity movements, and the
impacts these programs have upon classrooms and schools. The reader
will realize students have more rights and protections than
teachers. However, teachers are standing for themselves. In some
cases teachers physically defend themselves, risking their careers.
What are the causes of this increase of violence in schools, and
what needs to be done? Assaulted provides serious answers to
questions unaddressed by many school districts in America.
The Wrong Direction for Today's Schools: The Impact of Common Core
on American Education is an in-depth analysis of the newest
national American education fad, intended to replace the 2002
incarnation of the ESEA, No Child Left Behind. Zarra delves into
the "seeds" that produced the Common Core Standards, as well as the
groups involved in the political and corporate pressure to
completely revamp America's K-16 education system. The author lays
out a strong case for political motives involving the advancement
for nationalized education, such as those found in select European
and Asian nations. Zarra also follows the funding and provides
solid documentation and analysis of international and national
assessments, and how the funding and assessments proved pivotal in
the overhaul of American education. After an analysis of the
underpinnings of the Common Core Standards, Zarra critiques the
myths and facts of the Common Core, and balances these with the
emerging realities impacting average Americans and their families.
Zarra's book is a must-read and will prove to be extremely useful
to all who are concerned about public, private, and homeschool
education in America.
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