Re-Remote Learning

November 20, 2022

I was recently reminded of issues revolving around my reluctant withdrawal from teaching, painful issues. Why are those issues painful? …

A Memoir

August 21, 2022

Having found a brief break in the more explosive news of the day, I return to education issues. This article …

July 29, 2022

All writers eventually confront, if they are thoughtful people, the ultimate conceit: they have discovered the ultimate, definitive insight into …

January 30, 2022

It’s interesting, gentle readers, where memory takes us, unbidden, unexpected. I was this afternoon, suddenly back in my last semester …

December 19, 2021

In free states, school has been back in session since the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. No masks, no …

November 1, 2020

The Communist “long march through the institutions” is bearing bitter fruit. I’m very glad I retired in time. “Distance learning” …

September 7, 2020

Long time readers know I have often taken panicky teachers and school administrators to task when they have idiotically over …

August 23, 2020

“Man, proud man, Dress’d in a little brief authority.” William Shakespeare: Measure For Measure Last week, in School Secrets, I …

July 26, 2020

Schools across the country—yes, I’m being optimistic—may be opening within a month, but the D/S/C left, which includes teacher’s unions, …