Category Archives: Education

Trump’s 1% of Coronavirus Infection Reached

Trump’s 1% of Coronavirus Infection Reached Commentators have been scratching their heads for a week or so wondering what Trump meant by his statement that only 1% of Americans were affected by the Coronavirus.  My interpretation is the mildest to … Continue reading

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The University of California Acts to Protect International Students

The University of California Acts to Protect International Students UC System President Janet Napolitano announced that the UC is suing the Trump Administration action threatening to deport international students with F-1 or M-1 visas unless they take at least one … Continue reading

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School In-person Classes Must Be Based on Individual Choices

School In-person Classes Must Be Based on Individual Choices The carefully laid plans of states and school districts are being waylaid by Presidential and Department of Education political wishdom, which hopefully, will be blocked in the courts.  The Congress decides … Continue reading

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Trump Flunks an Intelligence Test with every Tweet or Commentary, and School Reopenings

Trump Flunks an Intelligence Test With Every Tweet or Commentary, and School Reopenings Why did doctors supposedly retest him for Alzheimer’s?  Trump pretends it was a test of his supreme mind, but it wasn’t.  We’ll get to this in a … Continue reading

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Will the Coronavirus Mutate to Attack Children?

Dear Donald and Betsy:  Please do not subject our children to a Coronavirus mutation experiment. We know that the Coronavirus is mutating, and we could have gotten the mutation arising from Europe.  It’s not that the virus is a being.  … Continue reading

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Trump is Forcing Schools and Universities to Reopen with an Iron Fist

Trump’s Rule by “Ferrous Fistus” Trump is ruling by an Iron Fist.  The only ruler listed ruling by an Iron Fist is Sadam Hussein of Iraq, but there are many synonyms suggested, such as Tyrant.  The “Iron Fist” also turns … Continue reading

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University Aid to High School Teaching and Educational Equality

University Departments’ Aid to High School Teaching and Educational Equality in the Time of the Pandemic. We are immediately concerned about the behavior of Police Departments to Black Americans, but this is just the tip of the iceberg of racial … Continue reading

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Military Style Protocols for the Return of In-person Classes

The Military Style Protocols for the Return of In-person Classes Having gotten used to one-way aisles and six steps of separation in lines, we design protocols should we decide to go to back to in-person classes. First, we radically reduce … Continue reading

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UC Irvine Talks on the Coronavirus by Dr. Matt Zahn and a Panel

UC Irvine Talks on the Coronavirus by Dr. Matt Zahn and a Panel 2019 Novel Coronavirus:  Current State of Knowledge and Public Health Response.  Feb. 10, 2020. Dr. Matt Zahn, Medical Director of the Communicable Disease Control Division of the … Continue reading

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Democracy Ratings for the US and Countries in the News from the V-Dem Institute

We show graphs over time of the US and countries in the news, for five categories.  The ratings go from 1900 through 2018, unless only fewer years are available.  The source of the ratings is the V-Dem Institute at V-dem.net. … Continue reading

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