School Secrets 2
“Man, proud man, Dress’d in a little brief authority.” William Shakespeare: Measure For Measure Last week, in School Secrets, I …
Tag Archives: educates
Back To School?
It began with the need to “flatten the curve,” so our hospitals would not be overwhelmed and utterly fall apart. …
The Tyranny Of Testing: Part 4, 2020–UPDATED
In the first three installments of this series (enter “the tyranny of testing” into the SMM homepage search bar), I …
The Tyranny Of Testing: Part 2, 2020
As this is written/updated on March 21, 2020, Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, due to the Coronavirus and mandatory, state …
The Ongoing(?) Mission
How to destroy education–and ultimately, the country–in one easy lesson: abandon its mission.
The Tyranny Of Testing, Part 5, 2019
In the first four articles in this series (enter “testing tyranny 2019″ in the SMM homepage search bar) I explored …
Education Problems And Solutions, Part 7–2017
In the first six articles of this series I’ve outlined a number of the problems facing public education, but not by …
Education Problems And Solutions, Part 6–2017
The primary reason for the existence of schools is old-fashioned, direct and simple: providing the best educational opportunity possible.
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 …
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 3
In the first article of this series–Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1–I explained the incredible amount of time lost to mandatory, …
Conservative Cognitive Dissonance
All political philosophies have contradictions, or perhaps more accurately, those espousing them have contradictory goals. I don’t identify as a …
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