A series of articles explains the looming Social Studies fiasco. The slow motion educational train wreck is not caused by Common Core. It is masked by academics who...
Readings of Individuals, Journalism, and Society are now available for download as podcasts read by the author. They can be downloaded to your iPod or smartphone and make...
Amazon Books now carries “Individuals, Journalism, and Society” by Stephen B. Waters. Find out why the 20th century didn’t live up to its promise. Discover why it is...
Take Back Your News, by Stephen B. Waters Table of Contents Dedication and Introduction Book 1: Follows a publisher’s efforts to improve the quality of wire service news reporting. It begins with a brief tutorial about news and follows with evidence for the reader to examine to come to personal conclusions. Book 2: Considers how ordinary people might have fallen Continue Reading...
News can fail you so many ways. Actually, those who gather news can fail you by how they write and what they say. The structure and integrity of news can fail through words, phrases, order, focus, scope, selection, omission, misrepresentation, juxtaposition, inference, innuendo, and much more. Those who benefit from preserving their media fiefdom in proximity to power won’t confess Continue Reading...
1. Social Studies: To whom does an education belong? In George Washington’s day, doctors leeched patients. It wasn’t the best practice, but it was what doctors had been taught to do. No surprise. Good teachers usually teach what they were taught to teach. Better teachers go beyond that to challenge students to validate for themselves even what their teachers teach. Continue Reading...
Cultures are like carpet pile. Humility and Reciprocity are the warp and weft threads of society that hold individuals and cultures together.
Individuals, Journalism, and Society are like concentric circles that affect each other.
Individuals adrift on an uncertain sea of sense experience create society out of self-interest.
The Social Studies Frameworks aren’t History, economics or political theory to indoctrinate, not educate....more
Individuals create society and protect it, but only if they understand why they should....more
