Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 5
In the first four articles in this series–available here, here, here and here-I explored many issues relating to mandatory, high stakes testing. However, I’ve yet to …
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Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 4
In the first three installments of this series (available here, here and here), I explained some of the many negative effects of …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 3
In the first article of this series–Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1–I explained the incredible amount of time lost to mandatory, …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 2
In Testing Tyranny, Part 1, I focused on how mandatory, high stakes testing is destroying the canon, removing enormous amounts …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1
I last updated this series of article in 2014. Much has changed since then, but the problems presented by mandatory, high …
Baltimore Schools: Inmates Running The Asylum
As regular readers know, I’ve been cataloguing the many failings of government in Baltimore. Crime rates, particularly violent crime rates, …
Education: Transformation
I’ve often written about disturbing trends in the public schools. Most are a natural consequence of the very organization of …
Emma Sulkowicz: A New Birth Of Art
It is time, gentle readers, that we, once again, discuss the meaning of art. Just what is it, and will …
To My Students: Farewell, For Now…
The end of the school year is a bittersweet time for teachers. It’s satisfying to bring to an end a …
Myron Rolle And Carson Huey-You: Lives That Matter
Extraordinary achievement should always be celebrated, and the race of the person achieving shouldn’t make the slightest difference. Unfortunately, after …
Comic Writings For 2016-2017
I think it time I veer away from the political carnage and enjoy a laugh or two. Each year I …
Campus Rape Facts: Who Yah Gonna Believe?
The statistics are unquestionable–at least to the social justice warriors inhabiting American colleges: something between 20 and 25 percent of …
Satirizing Self-Satire
As I tell my students when we’re dealing with common literary terms, satire is a form of comedy where one …
It’s About Time
Do not squander time, for that’s what life is made of. Benjamin Franklin Science fiction often uses time as a …
