Zombie Politics

As most of the nation (including myself) heads back to school today, here is my assessment of the current state of national education. Peo...

Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But...

With a new school year under way, I thought I would clear out my "Education" folder of saved links in one post. The first story co...

It only took Rhode Island teacher Steven Round less than seven minutes to sum up perfectly many of the things that are wrong with our educat...

Most of you have likely heard the story of Karen Klein, the bus monitor who was mercilessly teased by some junior high kids a couple of week...

I have found quite a few of your statements regarding the Constitution of the United States, the quality of public school education and gene...

About ten years ago I was sitting on the couch at a family gathering. Suddenly, out of nowhere, my six-year-old nephew clapped his hands ove...

I rip the media a lot for focusing on mainly ridiculous stories whose only purpose is ratings and sales of bullshit products. But NBC has r...

Mastiff's concluding comment. Finally for now, and I think I have mentioned this before, but students are never given truly long-term p...