School Attacks: Feeling Good Or Saving Lives, Part 5
The first four articles in this series are: (1) School Attacks: Feeling Good or Saving Lives, Part 1 (2) School …
Category Archives: Education
Avid Readers: An Endangered Species–UPDATED
I came across this article, written in May of 2016, today and thought it might, once again, be worth your …
School Attacks: Feeling Good Or Saving Lives, Part 4
The first three articles in this series are: (1) School Attacks: Feeling Good Or Saving Lives, Part 1 (2) School …
The ACT: Testing, Politics and Reality
In a presidential election year, both candidates constantly swear to “reform” our education system. Of course this presupposes the “system”–every …
School Attacks: Feeling Good Or Saving Lives, Part 3
The Murders at the Umpqua Community College, in Newtown, Connecticut and elsewhere have reignited the contrived controversy over school shootings. …
Academics vs. Athletics
Americans are a bit schizophrenic about their schools. They prioritize oddly, spending huge sums on athletics and supporting them in …
School Attacks: Feeling Good Or Saving Lives, Part 2
This is the second in the series of articles on school shootings and how to deal with them. The first …
The Newest Temple to The One, True Texas Religion
Each day, I do “five pointers,” questions my students can answer that yield five extra credit points. Among the categories …
School Attacks: Feeling Good Or Saving Lives? Part 1
This article, which first ran on March 07, 2012, and was updated in October of 2015, is the first in …
Up From Progressivism
My undergraduate college experience was atypical, at least compared with college these days. But then again, I was atypical. Early …
Back To School: 2016-2017
Well gentle readers, it’s that time again. August 22, 2016, will be the first day of the new school year, …
Reading: A Voice Crying In The Wilderness
Moral: adj. Concerning or relating to what is right and wrong in human behavior. Many of my 10th grade students …
St. Paul Schools Change Course: Establish Safe Environments–Naaaah!
As I noted in last week’s Racial Equity In the Twin Cities (there are links in that article to the …
Racial Equity In The Twin Cities
For the last two weeks, I resurrected two previous articles–Race-Based School Discipline: The Movement Continues and Race-Based School Discipline Finds Fertile …
