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Darrell Allison: Education to change
Posted: January 27, 2014 at 2:43 pm
As I travel around the state, I am sometimes asked by well-meaning skeptics: Instead of providing additional options to students, why not build it within our existing traditional public school system? I understand. For the defenders of traditional public schools, terms like public charter schools and private schools make them cringe. And, while there is a small minority of people that believe that public schools are inadequate and not worth investing in, I am not one of them.
My position on public education reform was best described in the award-winning 2011 documentary, Waiting for Superman. When studying the quality of public education compared to yesteryear, researchers found that high-performing schools had become low-performing and that the low academic scores may have little to do with the state of the actual school in question. In fact, the real issue may have more to do with the major decline and devastation in the communities that surrounds the school.
I am a product of public schools from a small North Carolina textile town. Today, where the textile mill smoke stacks once stood, they have been replaced by bright, biotech research buildings.
Consider this: When I attended public schools 23 years ago, 70 percent of the African-American households were two-parent households. Today, more than 70 percent of the African-American households are one-parent. And while I would in no way imply that our single mothers are somehow inadequate, Im appalled by the fact that they had no choice in the matter.
It is tough statistics like these that lead me to ask: Given the plight of our families, communities and the changing global economy, why should we expect our traditional public schools to face these challenges alone? Now more than ever, we must be open to change.
Change is constant. All of us must adapt. And our public educational system is no different.
When just more than 24 percent of children from low-income communities meet grade standards in Pitt County, it is clear that these parents deserve greater options for their children. When you add these countywide numbers to statewide figures, the number of children that are unable to perform is jaw dropping. According to the State Department of Public Instruction, 70 percent of low-income North Carolina students failed to demonstrate proficiency of their subject thats seven out of 10 students.
Our K-12 public education system should look to our forward-thinking leaders at our North Carolina college and university level. In a state recognized for its strong educational prowess, our schools of higher-learning house choice schools on their campuses. In recognition of the global economy, our universities have discussed the idea of starting campuses in China. If change is good enough for our world-class institutions, why such furor opposing parent options at the K-12 public education system the same system that produces 30 percent proficiency for poor students?
The divisions among adults within our traditional public schools, public charter schools and private schools must end. Its about the kids.
New York Times best-selling author, Eckhart Tolle, once said, Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that that makes space for something new to emerge. The something new to emerge will not happen solely within our traditional public schools, public charter schools nor in the Opportunity Scholarship program, where poor children can attend private schools.
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Present Moment Monday’s by Michele Penn #29. Thank you Eckhart Tolle for your inspiration. – Video
Posted: January 26, 2014 at 4:42 am
Present Moment Monday #39;s by Michele Penn #29. Thank you Eckhart Tolle for your inspiration.
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How Lord Caitanya is leading Cutting Edge Teachers, Oprah,Eckhart Tolle,Deepak Chopra Deeper – Video
Posted: January 23, 2014 at 10:44 am
How Lord Caitanya is leading Cutting Edge Teachers, Oprah,Eckhart Tolle,Deepak Chopra Deeper
In this age of Kali Yuga we are becoming aware by the grace of deep teachings of Lord Caitanya(God) and His servants that Life is connected and has a deeper ...
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Principle of Coexistence Eckhart Tolle – Program your subconscious with positive affirmations Theta – Video
Posted: January 21, 2014 at 12:47 pm
Principle of Coexistence Eckhart Tolle - Program your subconscious with positive affirmations Theta
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All ZenSpaceballs Finding the Now Eckhart Tolle or Mel Brooks – Video
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Spaceballs Finding the Now Eckhart Tolle or Mel Brooks
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The Secret to Achieving a Breakthrough in Your Career
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By Anthony Meindl | Posted Jan. 21, 2014, 10 a.m.
Do you want to know how to have a breakthrough year? In all areas of your life?
Just stay open.
Thats hard enough to do on a daily basis, as we have lots of ways of keeping ourselves from being just that. We become cynical or jaded or glib. We get rejected so we begin to believe in limitations and start doubting. We negate. The more closed we become the more we shut out the possibility of what being open bringswhich is simply more openings. When we stay open we create openings in our life.
And openings are breakthroughs.
I think we believe that breakthroughs occur in a flashy, dynamic, sudden, Boom! kind of way, but Ive actually found that although quantum breakthroughs do occur, those are actually called miracles. Breakthroughs, however, occur on a daily basis by simply showing up. Theyre not nearly as dramatic or perhaps as exciting as what we think a huge momentous experience looks like compared to the actual day-in-and-day-out of creating, but thats the only way we can get there. I know its a lot less glamorous than just being discovered or it magically happening, but we can rely on science because the logic works.
Its laying the foundation. If the foundation isnt laid we cant climb to the next level. Its physically impossible. Breakthroughs occur at the thought level first. We have a new idea or an Ah-ha! or a paradigm shift. Thats a breakthrough.
They also occur at the planning levelwe want to take action and move forward with our idea, and this phase is the bridge we must take to get to the third level: action.
It doesnt matter if what we want shows up right away or it looks like we thought itd look. The breakthrough simply occurs in doing it. Sitting around and having thoughts about something isnt the same as actually taking that something and moving into the world with it.
So, if you want to have a breakthrough year, stay open.
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Abraham-Hicks Doesn’t Contradict Eckhart Tolle – Video
Posted: January 20, 2014 at 3:43 pm
Abraham-Hicks Doesn #39;t Contradict Eckhart Tolle
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Eckhart Tolle – Nós temos escolha no sofrimento? – Video
Posted: January 19, 2014 at 8:45 am
Eckhart Tolle - Ns temos escolha no sofrimento?
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Present Moment Monday’s by Michele Penn #28. Thank you Eckhart Tolle for your inspiration. – Video
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Present Moment Monday #39;s by Michele Penn #28. Thank you Eckhart Tolle for your inspiration.
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Eckhart Tolle interviewed by Andrew Cohen (2000) 3/3 – Video
Posted: January 16, 2014 at 7:53 pm
Eckhart Tolle interviewed by Andrew Cohen (2000) 3/3
"The basic message of the teaching is: you don #39;t need any more time and (...) you don #39;t need any more suffering." A recorded interview with Eckhart Tolle, in...
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