Confessions of an e-cig salesman
Many youth are taking up e-cigarettes saying they want to quit tobacco or keep smoking minus the health effects, but the reality is the substitution won’t help them accomplish much beyond smoking in public places where tobacco has been banned. One youth who took a job as a “brand salesman” for an e-cigarette company divulges what is known about the reality of e-cigarettes, and what remains unknown. “[T]he first thing I learned in my job training was that these devices are neither proven cessation tools nor healthier than regular cigarettes. In fact, the chief rule was to avoid making such claims.” Read more confessions of an e-cig salesman, on Voicewaves.
Russ Walsh: “Reformers” Don’t Know What Motivates Teachers
Russ Walsh writes that corporate reformers have no idea what motivates teachers so they impose their own flawed ideas. Few have ever taught. They listen to economists, most of whom see education as an economic activity, not a humanistic activity.
First, they decided that the teacher is the most important determinant of student test scores (not true, the best predictor of student scores is family income and education). Then they decide that the best way to motivate teachers to work harder is to devise a system of rewards and punishments. Scores will rise, they reason, if teachers are threatened with loss of their careers.
But this is all wrong. Teachers are not motivated by carrots and sticks.
What motivates teachers?
Teachers are motivated by students.
“Nothing can motivate a teacher to be well-prepared and perform at peak ability more than the simple fact their will be 25 or so faces…
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2014 legislation affecting Hoosier seniors
Each year, legislation is drafted to address issues concerning Indiana’s aging community. During the 2014 legislative session, a number of proposals gained final approval and will become law.
Many circumstances arise when an incapacitated individual is no longer able to make decisions on their own. Senate Enrolled Act (SEA) 59 allows a guardian, including a volunteer advocates for senior program or a volunteer advocates for incapacitated adults program, to request permission to file a petition for divorce, legal separation, or annulment of marriage on behalf of an incapacitated person. Under this law, the court may grant these requests on behalf of an incapacitated person only if the court determines by clear and convincing evidence that petitioning for a divorce, a legal separation, or an annulment is in the best interests of the incapacitated person. The act lays out several guidelines regarding who may request permission to file a petition and who…
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