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My response to Dr. Young’s oped, “Making it easier to identify and treat the next Adam Lanza.”

While I very much appreciate many of the points captured in Dr. Young’s Detroit Free Press oped, “Making it easier to identify and treat the next Adam Lanza,” I struggle with the title and it’s somewhat sensationalistic slant.  We all know that an infinitesimal number of children go on to commit such violently tragic acts […]

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Why I am disappointed in the Balanced Mind Foundation

In response to “Adam Lanza: Part 2“, by Susan Resko: While I sincerely appreciate Part 2 of Susan’s Resko’s blog about Adam Lanza, it does not go nearly far enough, and does not even touch upon the failure of our public education system to educate children with the early onset of psychiatric illness. She is correct

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Nov 24, 2011 Letter to Detroit Free Press re: Brandon Jessup

Letter to the editor- One could believe it is David vs. Goliath when thinking about a mere mortal by the name of Brandon Jessup taking on Governor Snyder and democracy at its very core. Yet Mr. Jessup and his grassroots effort “Stand Up for Democracy” have done just that, and 161,305 signatures later the “emergency

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Deeming Interns ‘Qualified’ is Harmful to Students

Education Week Letter to the Editor, published January 25, 2011: To the Editor: The Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa gift President Barack Obama signed into law on Dec. 22, 2010, that will allow states to classify teaching interns (students earning teaching certificates and endorsements) as “highly qualified” was a giant lump of educational coal to our nation’s minority, low-income,

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