Mizzou: That Old College Try!
It is encouraging to see a number of universities experiencing the consequences or their total abdication of their duty to …
Category Archives: Education
School Attacks: Saving Lives Or Saving Face, Part 3
The Murders at the Umpqua Community College, in Newtown, Connecticut, and elsewhere have reignited the contrived controversy over school shootings. I …
Education: Problems And Solutions, Part 1–2017
In 2011, I published a seven-part series on the problems of contemporary education, and proposed solutions for them. It’s time to …
School Attacks: Saving Lives Or Saving Face, Part 2–2017
This is the second in the series of articles on school shootings and how to deal with them. The first is available …
A Revolutionary Dress Code
Dress codes in public schools are a perennial hot topic. Stodgy, inflexible, conservative school officials unreasonably force conformity on brilliant, …
School Attacks: Saving Lives Or Saving Face, Part 1–2017
This article, which first ran on March 07, 2012, and was most recently updated in August of 2016, is the …
Grade Inflation: You Get What You Deserve
The American Interest recently published an article decrying rampant grade inflation in American schools. They’re right about the inflation, but …
The U Miss Banana Horror: Day-O!
I like bananas. I like trees too. It had never occurred to me that combining the two would be horrifying, …
California Trans-Kindergartners
California wants to secede? They ‘ve got my vote. All competent teachers understand there are clear and ever-present boundaries between …
College English: Reality Has A Way Of Catching Up With You
I have, for some years now, been watching the fetid swamp of political correctness, fearfulness, and the jellyfish spines of …
AP: Race To The Bottom
One of my favorite signs of all time, which I saw in the storefront window of a private social welfare …
Campus Concealed Carry Quiet
Do you hear that, gentle readers? The sound of happy crickets chirping? I’ll get to why they’re chirping soon enough, …
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 …
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 …
