We're Not Watching Our Schoolhouse Rock
As it is the Independence Day weekend, there are two bits of information dear ol' Eduflack simply can't pass up. The first comes to us from the Associated Press, where Lauren Sausser reported on a recent analysis of the original Declaration of Independence conducted by scientists at the Library of Congress. Using the latest technologies, they can see that Thomas Jefferson accidentally used the word "subjects" instead of "citizens" when first declaring our independence, undoubtedly a force of habit after a lifetime under the rule of the monarch. Like most good writers, he simply "erased" the error, replaced it with citizen, and the rest is history. Guess that means there is still hope for us educators who can't help but let works like phonics, scientifically based, AYP, and NCLB to slip through out lips.
While the University of Virginia graduate and all-around Jeffersonian in me was quite taken by the AP story (and talked about it most of yesterday), I was even a little more taken by the Marist University poll Eduflack read last