The Point Of Education
I often find, usually in breathless headlines, that public education is absolutely worthless. It’s broken! It’s child abuse! Teachers only care about …
Category Archives: Education
Drag Queen Storytime: Normalizing Abnormality
In October of 2017 I wrote Look What The Librarian Dragged In, which was the story of librarians sponsoring drag queen …
The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, 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 …
The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, Part 4
In the first three installments of this series (available here, here and here), I explained some of the many negative effects of mandatory, …
School Attacks: The Greatest Degree Of Actual Safety
After the Parkland shooting, the anti-liberty/gun Left reflexively regurgitated its standard response: more gun control. Most did not specify what …
The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, Part 3
In the first article of this series–The Tyranny of Testing 2018 Part 1, I explained the incredible amount of time lost to …
The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, Part 2
In The Tyranny Of Testing 2018, Part 1, I focused on how mandatory, high stakes testing is destroying the canon, removing …
The Tyranny of Testing 2018, Part 1
At the end of May, 2013, I began what would turn into a four part series on the problem of …
Teaching And Summer: I Knew The Bed Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It
I’ve been thinking about this week’s education article for some time, and the usual outrages in college and secondary education …
Device Addiction: Technology Is Transformative
Among the most pressing concerns of contemporary educators is device addiction. And in a very real sense, we’ve willingly brought …
Respecting Pronouns
Adolescence is a difficult time. Teenagers are wracked with raging hormones, unfamiliar and powerful emotions, unrestrained passions, destructive impulsiveness and …
Bulletproof Backpacks: Selling Feeling Safe
One of the interesting, and perhaps a bit disturbing, sideshows of school attacks is marketing. We’re very good at capitalizing …
Sandy Hook: Not Just A Connecticut Problem
As regular readers know, I’ve covered the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting extensively over the years. My definitive writing on …
Noblesville: Time And Distance
School attacks remain, thankfully, rare. Rarer still is an attack stopped by a teacher, but that was the case on …
