Author Archives: Nora OLeary Roseberry
Nora OLeary Roseberry
Editor’s note: Formula 1 is coming to Austin, Texas in a few days, and since the Compass Learning headquarters is based in downtown Austin, we want to welcome race fans to our great city! We’ll be posting a series of blogs that focus on what you can learn from racing for the next couple weeks. [...]
I recently sat in the audience for a live taping of KLRU’s Overheard with Evan Smith to watch an interview with education activist and reformer, Diane Ravitch. Ravitch has consistently entered the public sphere to engage in education debates, lately in criticism of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. A former assistant [...]
Is that little Johnny’s not-so-stellar report card? Nope! It’s the percentage of eligible voters that turned out for the past federal presidential (red) and general (green) elections! If this were a grade in a classroom it would be failing! Selecting one’s own leaders is a fundamental right in a democracy, so why is voter participation [...]
Editor’s Note: To celebrate National Constitution Day, which marks the 225-year anniversary of the last day of the Constitutional Convention – the day the delegates met to sign our nation’s constitution – we take a moment to remember an often “forgotten amendment.” Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to [...]
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Direct or indirect, that is the question! It was a dark and stormy night (probably at least somewhere in the United States) as reporters scrambled to pounce first on the announcement that everyone had been waiting for: the winner of the 2000 presidential election. That single announcement, however, would be retracted and rebutted throughout the [...]
Editor’s note: With the 2012 election just around the corner, we want our readers to stay informed regarding our nation’s future, as well as its past. This is why our Social Studies team will craft various weekly blogs around the history of elections and the importance of participation. These posts are co-authored by Nora O’Leary-Roseberry [...]
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