Author Archives: Robert Oliphant EducationViews Columnist
Playground Jungles versus Young Tutors — A Option for Worried Parents and Ambitious Students
By Robert Oliphant – Dear Young Friend. . . . By way of openers I’m assuming that you’re familiar with the climate of fear that now envelopes American schools, especially… Read more
From Personal Song to Public Speaking Confidence — Some State-of-the-Art Guidance for Middle Schoolers and Older
By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I believe in following the public, not leading it. This means that the favorable public response to a Los Angeles Times… Read more
Worldwide American Spoken English for Middle Schoolers — A Four Step Program
By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I’m a proper name junkie who likes to check out what’s on the doors of our professional office buildings today. Most… Read more
California Dreaming and Bureaucratic Scheming — A Working Journalist’s Backup Kit from EducationViews.org. . . .
CSU administrators consistently refuse to share facts like these with the public and with the press.
American Employability, the Graduate Record Exam, and Spoken Professional American Dictionary English — A Practical Option for Today’s Middle Schoolers
Robert Oliphant – For the present, though, here’s to our middle schoolers, to their futures, to their sense of separate self, and to their ability to smell out dishonesty and corruption.
Ideas, Politics, and Factualists — New-Wave Common Ground for Conservatives and Liberals
By Robert Oliphant – Educationally considered, for instance, most Americans are already familiar with our current range of yearly tuition costs
Five Linguistic Fallacies Worth Discussing by American High Schoolers and Their Parents
By Robert Oliphant – The Equality Fallacy. . . . Some years back the great anthropologist Franz Boas struck back against linguistic racism by insisting that there are no “primitive” languages
Educational Testing versus Educational Scamming — A Thorstein Veblen Perspective
By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I write short articles about educational matters. Since the 99 percenters are complaining about college costs, I feel this one is worth a second look.
Ideas, Facts, and Startup Proposals — A New Format for Thought Experiments
By Robert Oliphant – In my own discussions of American education, I’ve found interesting ideas usually impress those who already subscribe to them and offend those who don’t.
Worldwide Spoken American English for Middle Schoolers — A Four-Step Wake Up Call
By Robert Oliphant – My name is Bob and I’m a proper-name junkie, which means I’m upset by the number of exotically foreign names on the doors of the professional-office… Read more »