Education: Grammar Attacks II!
Welcome back for the 2011-2012 edition of the syntactic train wrecks inadvertently composed by my students. Abraham Lincoln was once …
Category Archives: Education
Education Fireworks at PJ Media
If you have a few minutes, you might want to stop by PJ Media where the good folks there have …
Education: Grammar Attacks!
Among the great joys of teaching high school English is discovering the occasional swine among pearls. I speak, of course, …
Education: What Did Your Student Learn In School This Week?
The education column for this week is something of a memoir. It’s a memoir of a week recently wasted on …
Education: You’ve Lost That Magic Feelin’
In my April 24 education article titled Education: Research and Magic, I spoke of two current trends in education: (1) over-reliance …
Education: Research and Magic
In my educational writings here at SMM, I’ve tried to inform readers about several contemporary—and damaging—trends in education. Among them …
Education: The Wreckage of Teacher/Student Romances, Postscript
In a March 6, 2012 article titled “Education: The Wreckage of Teacher/Student Romances,” I wrote about the case of California …
Education: Adult Bullies Just Can’t Help Themselves
A Parable For Our Times: The other day I heard from a colleague about a kindergarten teacher in a school …
Education: The Meritless Merits of Merit Pay
You’d think I’d be for merit pay (DANGER: The following paragraph is a pat-myself-on-the-back zone). I’m a hard-working, dedicated teacher. …
Education: The Inability to Fire Incompetent Teachers: Whose Fault?
I’ve always respected Mona Charen. Her writing is lively and rational, and I’ve long considered her book—Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt …
Education: Fixing Intelligence and In-Service Training
Today’s topic is intelligence, or more directly, its misuse in education. As I’ve written in past education articles, one of …
Education: To Anti-Bully Or Not To Anti-Bully?
Several recent events have prodded me to write about bullying. One of the continuing problems in education is the fad. …
Education: The Wreckage of Teacher/Student Romances
I intended to address the issue of bullying and the overblown response of the education system to it this week, …
Education: Sing About Peace Or I’ll Kill You!
A recent incident in Grand Junction, Colorado has struck familiar chords. I briefly lived in Grand Junction as a young …
