Author Archives: Jon Awbrey

Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 6

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Until very recently, beginning with the perverse promotion of corporate curricula, state and federal governments have never had “the power to require children to receive … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 5

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Help the ACLU Sue the State of Nevada to Stop Vouchers Religion is a private business. If religious establishments wish to remain free of accountability to the government of the people as a whole — just … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 4

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Diane Ravitch • Why Douglas County, Colorado, Vouchers Were Ruled Unconstitutional Freedom of religion depends on the separation of church and state. That’s what they taught us back in the last millennium, even in Texas, maybe even especially in … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 3

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Hays • How to Fix the College Debt Problem Once we are clear about the principles that govern the role of education in a democratic society then we can begin to reason out optimal ways of providing for … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 2

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Michael Hays • How to Fix the College Debt Problem The rationale for Universal Free Public Education is that a certain level of education is necessary for a person to function as a full-fledged citizen in a well-tempered and … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Comment 1

Posted on September 2, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

What was it called? — spinthariscope? — it came from a science kit I got as a kid … I might as well jump in medias res … Re: Michael Hays • How to Fix the College Debt Problem Better … Continue reading →

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Basal Ingredients Of Society • Prologue

Posted on September 1, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

I settled on the acronym BIOS to suggest the vital elements of life in society, a life in association with others, and not just any association but one whose flickers of life are sustained for more than a few vicissitudes … Continue reading →

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Pedagogy and Phrenology

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Gene V Glass • Why I Am No Longer a Measurement Specialist When I was learning research statistics, the standard cautionary tale on construct validity featured the foibles of Phrenology, the onetime pseudoscience that sought to psych out a … Continue reading →

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Quiz Biz

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

When I taught undergrad math, I told my students that tests were simply a means of communication between student and teacher designed to guide the instruction process, that it was a matter of some inconvenience that third parties had taken … Continue reading →

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Zeroth Law Of Semiotics • Comment 7

Posted on August 18, 2015 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Peirce List I still have in mind trying to show how the principle I dubbed the Zeroth Law Of Semiotics can help us see what is really going on with a number of old puzzles like the Liar Paradox, … Continue reading →

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