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Through our website, you can learn your rights as a taxpayer and parent as well as to which programs, monies and more you may be entitled...and why you may not be able to exercise these rights.

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Betsy Combier

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Email: betsy.combier@gmail.com

 
The E-Accountability Foundation announces the

'A for Accountability' Award

to those who are willing to whistleblow unjust, misleading, or false actions and claims of the politico-educational complex in order to bring about educational reform in favor of children of all races, intellectual ability and economic status. They ask questions that need to be asked, such as "where is the money?" and "Why does it have to be this way?" and they never give up. These people have withstood adversity and have held those who seem not to believe in honesty, integrity and compassion accountable for their actions. The winners of our "A" work to expose wrong-doing not for themselves, but for others - total strangers - for the "Greater Good"of the community and, by their actions, exemplify courage and self-less passion. They are parent advocates. We salute you.

Winners of the "A":

Johnnie Mae Allen
David Possner
Dee Alpert
Aaron Carr
Harris Lirtzman
Hipolito Colon
Larry Fisher
The Giraffe Project and Giraffe Heroes' Program
Jimmy Kilpatrick and George Scott
Zach Kopplin
Matthew LaClair
Wangari Maathai
Erich Martel
Steve Orel, in memoriam, Interversity, and The World of Opportunity
Marla Ruzicka, in Memoriam
Nancy Swan
Bob Witanek
Peyton Wolcott
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Open the Classroom Doors!
The US must do something that has never been done: look at TEACHING instead of TEACHERS. American Educator, Spring 2004
          
Several decades of analysis and discussion of "good teachers" has not had any impact in the classroom. Even though a few excellent teachers have been publicized in the hope that their teaching styles will be copied, teaching as an art has not been visible and teaching methods have not improved in the average American classroom because the doors to the classroom are closed.
American Educator's Spring 2004 issue suggests that "To achieve small and continuing improvements in the average classroom requires a major shift in educators' thinking- from TEACHERS to TEACHING. rather than focusing only on evaluating the quality of teachers, the educational community must begin examining the quality of teaching...opening the classroom door."
Source: "Opening the Classroom Doors: Heroes for the Good of the Profession" by James Hiebert, Ronald Gallimore, and James Stigler, AMERICAN EDUCATOR, Spring 2004

 
© 2003 The E-Accountability Foundation