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6-2006

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• Bulletin on the Establishment of the Citizen Advocacy Foundation of America (CAFA)

• The State of OW' Schools

• Evidence of School Disfunctionality/Failure

• Poor Skills & Performance in Math

• Poor Knowledge of/Performance in Science

• Poor Knowledge of History

• American Ignorance About Geography

• Poor Literacy (Reading, Writing)

• Grade Inflation & Social Promotion

• Everyone Being Identified as "Disabled"

• Teacher Quality & Qualifications

• Graduation Rates

• Schools Being Expected to Make Up for/Deal With the Collapses of Parenting & of Societal Functionality

• "Junk" Eating Up Educational Time

• Junking Kids' Time With Days, Weeks, & Months Devoted to Special Topics

• Bullying

• Other Violence in Schools

• Harsh Responses as Students Become More Ill-Behaved

• Teachers Having Sex With Students

• Other Dangers in Schools

• Efforts to Address/Combat the Problems

• Schools & Money

• Selling Schools to Corporations, Mostly in Exchange for Money

• Starting Magnet & Charter Schools

• Technology in Schools

• Denial/Rejection of Tried & True Pedagogies

• Substituting "Gimmickry" & Technology for Pedagogy

• Remedial Education & Tutoring

• Lengthening/Shortening the Time in School

• Tests &Testing in Pre-College Schooling

• Grading Schools' Performance

• Teachers & Schools Cheating

• Miscellaneous Reform Measures

• Teachers & Their Unions Objecting to Any Reform Measures

• What Young Minds Are Truly Capable Of--&Lies About What Young Minds Are Capable Of

• The Embarrassing (to the Public Schools) Performance of Church-Run Schools That Are Less Well-Funded & Have Larger Classes

• Home-Schooling, & the Embarrassing (to the Formal Schools) Performance of Children Who Are Home-Schooled

• The SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test)

• Colleges, Universities, & Their Students

• Other Evidence of Collapse/Non-Functionality of Schools

• Denial of the Collapse of Schools

• Miscellaneous

• Update on the Gulf Coast Hurricane Disasters of 2005

• Miscellaneous Health & Health Care News

• Miscellaneous Other Human Service News

• Miscellaneous Other News & Signs of the Times

• Flyers on Upcoming Events

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Psychology

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June/August/October, 2006

TIPS, Volume 26, No. 1, 2 & 3, 2006

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