Blog - Citizen Jack's Mud Creek Chronicles

Preface

by Jack Hassard | May 26, 2005 | History & Philosophy

For the past four years, America has faced a clear and present danger. It seems as if every day, Trump said or did something that sends you running for cover. Even after he was defeated by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Donald...

Evolution Stickers Become Extinct From Science Textbooks in Georgia

by Jack Hassard | May 24, 2005 | Curriculum, Politics, Religion

In today’s Marietta Daily Journal and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, it was reported that the Cobb County School District (one of the largest districts in Georgia) was in the process of removing stickers from more than...

Using the Web to Transform Learning Possibilities

by Jack Hassard | May 19, 2005 | Environment, Technology

Fifteen years ago, a team of educators from Georgia took 6 Macintosh SE 20 computers, modems, and printers to the then Soviet Union, and then proceeded to install one computer, modem and printer in five different schools we were...

The Case of iBooks in Cobb County Schools

by Jack Hassard | May 17, 2005 | Curriculum, Reform, Technology

This is the county in Georgia where I reside. I followed the story in the local newspaper on the Cobb County School District’s decision to provide Apple i-Books for all teachers, and students in grades 6 -12, beginning...

Web-Based Teaching, Just Another Fad?

by Jack Hassard | May 17, 2005 | Curriculum, Teacher Education, Technology

Jerry Squire, a twenty-year veteran science teacher in a midwestern urban high school, was sitting in the audience at a staff development conference listening to a speaker from a science education research and development center...

Free Minds

by Jack Hassard | May 12, 2005 | Curriculum, Issues

“Dogmatism and sectarianism must go, for Almighty God had made the mind free,” said Thomas Jefferson more than 200 years ago (See Edwin S. Gaustad’s book on Thomas Jefferson). For decades, dogmatists have tried...