Christmas? Bah! Humbug!
One might consider this the “bah, humbug!” edition of my weekly education column, which, given the season, is particularly fitting. …
Category Archives: Education
Drake University: The Never-Ending Quest
Most American colleges and universities these days are bastions of politically correct progressivism, or socialism or communism, or something left …
ALICE: Choose Wisely
As regular readers know, I recently posted my updated, multi-part series on deterring and stopping school attacks. It can be …
Research Paper Doom
This is a topic to which I occasionally return: research papers. They are, for English teachers, one of the banes …
AP: Fun Facts To Know And Tell
Let us begin, gentle readers, with an entirely outrageous, white privileged, racist, sexist–fill in your favorite ist here–proposition: some people …
School Attacks, Saving Lives, Part 8, 2018
To find the first seven articles in this series, enter “school attacks: saving lives” in the “search” bar in the …
School Attacks: Saving Lives, Part 7, 2018
To find the first six articles in this series, enter “school attacks: saving lives” in the “search” bar in the …
High Stakes Testing: A Pox On Humanity
Regular readers know I consider mandatory, high stakes testing a pox on humanity. Not only is it grotesquely expensive—which provides enormous …
What Was That–You Know–Thingy–We Were Supposed To Remember…?
I normally post education articles on Mondays, but this is as much a political issue as an education one, as …
School Attacks: Saving Lives, Part 6, 2018
To find the first five articles in this updated series, enter “School Attacks: Saving Lives 2018” in the search bar …
Great Books; Taking Advantage Of Opportunity
When I was a young teacher—young in years in the public schools, not in passage of years—I was invited, with …
School Attacks: Saving Lives, Part 5, 2018
The first four articles in this series my be found by entering “School Attacks: Saving Lives 2018” in the SMM …
Grieving Grievance Studies: The Continuing Scam
During my undergraduate days, I was forced to take a course from a leftist female professor. It was a small …
School Attacks: Saving Lives, Part 4, 2018
The first three articles in this series may be found by entering “School Attacks: Saving Lives 2018” in the SMM …
