It’s Armistice Day, November 11th, in thenation's capital. It is a brisk day at Arlington National Cemetery. Dignitaries stand silently on the third anniversaryof the ending of World War I, watching as a single white casket is lowered into a marbledtomb. In attendance is President Calvin Coolidge,former President Woodrow Wilson, Supreme Court Justice (as well as former President) WilliamHoward Taft, Chief Plenty Coups, and hundreds of dedicated United States servicemen. As the casket settles on its final restingplace in the tomb, upon a thin layer of French soil, three salvos are fired. A bugler plays taps and, with the final note,comes a 21 gun salute. The smoke clears and eyes dry as the UnknownSoldier from World War I is laid to rest; the first unknown soldier to be officiallyhonored in this manner in American history. The United States’ allies in World War I,France and Britain, were the first countries to practice the concept of burying an “unknownsoldier.” World W...
Joseph GeniReviewer: Morton Bast I have spent my entire life either at the schoolhouse,on the way to the schoolhouse, or talking about what happensin the schoolhouse. (Laughter) Both my parents were educators, my maternal grandparents were educators, and for the past 40 years,I've done the same thing. And so, needless to say, over those years I've had a chanceto look at education reform from a lot of perspectives. Some of those reforms have been good. Some of them have been not so good. And we know why kids drop out. We know why kids don't learn. It's either poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences... We know why. But one of the thingsthat we never discuss or we rarely discuss is the value and importanceof human connection. Relationships. James Comer saysthat no significant learning can occur withouta significant relationship. George Washington Carver says all learning is understanding relationships. Everyone in this room has been affectedby a teacher or an a...