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Big Brother Is Watching! Stark Similarities Between George Orwell's '1984' & Modi's 2020 India George Orwell's fictional depiction of the future world is eerily coming true. Update: 2020-02-27 14:27 GMT Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree." India has erupted into flames of protests in almost every city. In the backdrop of the anti-CAA protests, citizens are disgruntled. People are dissatisfied with the government. They are angry that their freedom is being curtailed at every step and their opinions suppressed. They are enraged at how their dissent is being tossed about. People are living in constant fear of being watched and monitored. In a nutshell, people are living in '1984', even in 2020. George Orwell's 1984 is a dystopian novel that depicts a society under constant surveillance under an authoritarian ...

The story of American public education begins with Horace Mann. It was Mann who popularized the idea that American schools should teach all students, be non-sectarian, and tax-supported.  A little less than a half-century passed between Mann’s death and the advent of John Dewey. That half-century may well be the most dynamic period of American History. In Horace Mann’s world, schools were small, scattered, and teachers had to teach a small number of widely-varied students in one-room schoolhouses.  By 1900, there were still many rural schools, but the United States was quickly becoming an urban nation. Whether attracted to city lights or forced out by crippling debts, many farmers were moving to the cities. Once there, they mixed with immigrants sweeping into the nation. In some ways, city life was more convenient—and certainly more entertaining. But urban life was also more dangerous and demanded skills that the schoolmarm could not teach in her one-room school. T...

Skip to main content Mobile Navigation National Ohio About Search SEARCH FLYPAPER Watch the movie, don’t just read the script: Teaching vs. curriculum Michael Goldstein 1.8.2020         Getty Images/Estradaanton Fordham has produced  The Supplemental Curriculum Bazaar: Is What’s Online Any Good?  Worth reading! Are popular materials offered on Teacher Pay Teachers, and similar sites, useful? Not really, say the authors. They mostly suck. They looked at English materials. One big concern was the lack of directions: For example, one poorly rated writing task asks students to select five important events from their life and write an autobiography but offers little guidance beyond that. Stacey Childress responds to  Bazaar . She correctly cautions us to wait a minute. While she likes the idea of curriculum reviews—she provided seed funding to what became ...