School Attacks On The Rise?
Do you recall, gentle readers, the missing children on milk cartons craze of the early 1980s? Wild numbers were bandied …
Category Archives: Education
School Attacks 2019, 2: Saving Lives?
This is the second in the series of articles on school shootings and how to deal with them. To find …
Non-Math In Seattle
In July of 2019, I wrote Social Justice Math—Unless And Until We Stop It. I wrote of University of Illinois Professor …
Reading Fails: Let Them
You have often, gentle readers, seen me decry the declining standards in our public schools. I’ve provided problems and solutions, …
The Gibson’s Case: Oberlin Fail (Again)
The Gibson’s saga (enter “gibson’s” in the SMM homepage search bar for the rest of this series) continues, to the …
Teaching: A Day In The Life
Everyone knows teachers are underworked, overpaid, lazy and Leftist, right gentle readers? I’ve certainly known teachers who were not as …
Chick-fil-A: Eat Mor Chikin; Ignore More Special Snowflakes
There are few Americans that have not heard of Chick-fil-A. Most have partaken of their delicious, reasonably priced offerings, and …
SAT Adversity Score Subterfuge
In July of this year, in Adversity Scores: Real Racism in Higher Education, I wrote about the company that produces …
Really Reforming Education: What’s It Worth?
To those that have been paying attention, this should sound familiar:
Education: But It’s Research Based!
I am a survivor, gentle readers, a survivor of education in-service training. It has been brutal. Unproved theories and methods, …
Fundamentally Transforming Education, 2019
I originally posted this article back in January of 2018. As these issues are very much on my mind–school starts …
The Point Of Education, 2019
I first posted this article a year ago. As I prepare to meet my last classes of students on August …
Adversity Scores: Real Racism In Higher Education
Back in the 1400s when I was in high school and had a great deal more hair, I took the …
The Gibson’s Case: Real Reality
I often ask my students what happens when they are presented with irrefutable evidence that something they believe in, perhaps …
