Bob Dean was a Clark County Builder for 17 years before he returned to the high school classroom. He has taught high school mathematics for more than 20 years.
He was appointed by the State Board of Education to be on its' Math Advisory Panel and was later appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to be on the standards revision team that wrote new math standards for the state.
He has written numerous op-ed articles on math education that have been published around the state and has been a presenter on math issues at the University of Washington, the state legislature, and the Washington Association of School Administrators.
He remains a strong advocate for real improvement of math education.
If the past has nothing to offer the present then the present has nothing to offer the future....
Bob Dean — January 8, 2010 at 6:33 p.m. ( reply | permalink | suggest removal )
Bob Dean is a former Clark County Builder and has taught high school mathematics for more than 20 years. He was appointed by the State Board of Education to be on its' Math Advisory Panel and was later appointed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to be on the standards revision team that wrote new math standards for the state of Washington. He has written numerous op-ed articles on math education that have been published around the state and has been a presenter at the University of Washington, the state legislature, and the Washington Association of School Administrators. He remains a strong advocate for real improvement of math education.
Bob Dean — November 7, 2010 at 11:32 a.m. ( reply | permalink | suggest removal )
It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers.
James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government."
This idea -- that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power -- is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man.
This is the issue: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.
You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream--the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism.
Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, "The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.
Ronald Reagan - 1964
Bob Dean — April 5, 2013 at 8:06 a.m. ( reply | permalink | suggest removal )