Fundamentally Transforming Education
With the advent of 2018, I thought I’d engage in a bit of a thought experiment. All dedicated teachers find …
Tag Archives: Education
Comic Writings For 2016-2017–Bumped
As a slight departure from my usual Monday education article, and to help usher in the new year with a …
Education Problems And Solutions, Part 4–2017
The first three articles in this, the updated 2017 version of this series are: Education Problems and Solutions, Part 1–2017 …
Education: Problems And Solutions, Part 2–2017
In Education Problems and Solutions, Part 1–2017, I wrote about how laziness, warped expectations and the demand for “data” have harmed education. …
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: Transformation
I’ve often written about disturbing trends in the public schools. Most are a natural consequence of the very organization of …
To My Students: Farewell, For Now…
The end of the school year is a bittersweet time for teachers. It’s satisfying to bring to an end a …
The School Prayer Narrative
This is an article I originally posted in 2012, but the topic frequently comes up, not only in my teaching, …
Education: What’s Wrong With These People?!
These days I find myself often reading the news and saying out loud: “what’s wrong with those people?! Is it …
Mandatory Testing, Cowpokes and Inference
Gouverneur Morris, one of the founding fathers and a signer of the Constitution, once said that he was “constitutionally among …
Support For A Child Molester: Consequences
On August 23, I posted an article titled “ Support for a Child Molester: Betrayal?” It is the story of …
Is Teaching A Profession?
NOTE: This article is cross-posted at Confederate Yankee in a somewhat different format. I read a column the other day …
