Grading Racism
August, 2020. Across America—well, in many places, mostly in red states—a new school year began, and for the first time …
Category Archives: Education
Pearson And Woke Curriculum: Short Lived?
A long time ago, in a land, far, far away, local control of education was thought to be a good …
Band Tents?!
In 1969, Woody Allen wrote and starred in Take The Money And Run. He played Virgil Starkwell, an inept criminal. …
Canceling AP: Bad Luck
Having retired from public education, I’ve had the time and perspective to think about a great many things with which …
Deconstructing Shakespeare: The Horrors Of The Past
In January of 2017 I wrote Deconstructing Shakespeare, which was the story of the Penn English Department and it’s oh-so-woke students …
Should Everyone Attend College?
Diversity: Noun. Synonym for “equity.” Euphemistic term for any belief, philosophy, policy or practice that cannot be supported on legal, …
Cultural Literacy/Cultural Collapse
A book that influenced my thinking about education was Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, by E.D. Hirsch, published …
IQ: For Our Sake–Revisited
Upon occasion I run across a previous article that seems to have aged reasonably well and bears on a contemporary …
Biden: On The Bodies…
Back in May of 2020 I wrote Connecticut Trans: Mean Girls? It is the story of three Connecticut high school athletes: …
Covid Real Reality
The Covid-19 virus is quite real. The political response to it has been a self-serving, politically inspired disaster, and nowhere …
Birthing Stupidity At Harvard
Just a bit of medical/academic lunacy for today’s article, gentle readers. Regarding the headline graphic, we have reporter Jennifer Bendery, …
Glimpses of Academic Lunacy
This week, courtesy of the good folks at Legal Insurrection, a few brief glimpses at academia, AKA the utter and …
Jill Biden: Alphabet Soup–UPDATED
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the pseudo-controversy revolving around Jill Biden. Excuse me: DR. Jill Biden, Ed.D.
Williams & Sowell: Educational Malpractice
Walter Williams. Thomas Sowell. Two of America’s genuine, public intellectuals. I say “genuine” because there are a great many poseurs, …
