Zombie Politics

With much of the country steeped in distance learning, an inherent flaw in our education system has been exposed. This flaw is one of percep...

I peaked in to Kevin Baker's site for the first time in a while. I was sad to see that he has been ill. I wish him a speedy recovery and...

The main reason why I became a teacher was to inspire and motivate young people to change the world and make it a better place. I'll let...

Right wing bloggers (and really, conservatives in general) have a fixation on our country's education system. They think that it's a...

I've been in school for the past three weeks but the rest of the nation will officially be back tomorrow. That means it's time for a...

Conservatives think that liberals have the corner market on entitlement. They whine and foam at the mouth about how liberals, especially the...

Nikto has been doing a great job covering all the Trump stuff this week so I thought I would focus on something else: education. Being that ...

In Hartford, Conn., voluntary desegregation is diversifying classrooms...

Bill raises some pretty serious questions in this video. Why must people insist on being ignorant? Lately, I've been thinking it's j...

April is usually a time of hope as Spring is about to arrive. People around the country are welcoming the warmer weather and the chance to s...

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...

Whenever I see articles in the paper about education, I am invariably driven even further to the brink of insanity. This recent piece in the...

I have to admit that there are plenty of days when I'd like to be the kind of teacher that J.K. Simmons is in the film Whiplash . This...

Check out the recent study done by the Washington Center For Equitable Growth. If the United States makes more of an investment increasing ...

Most of the news that is heavily reported these days is bad news. There are number of reasons for this but the main one is that bad news sel...

A  recent piece in the New York Times  led me  David Christian's Big History project  and I have to admit I am completely fascinated by ...