Teaching: A Model?
Who, exactly, do we want in the classroom? Who should be teaching our kids, and who shouldn’t? If we’re not …
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Remote Learning: A Few Things To Keep In Mind
In free states, school has been back in session since the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year. No masks, no …
California “Educators”: Manufactured Reality
Among the first things I told my students on the first day of class each year was that I didn’t …
Defunding School Police: Feeling Safe From Reality
Imagine, gentle readers, you’re a leftist. Imagine further you’re an educator, but not an actual teacher. You’re an educrat, an …
Education: Learning Or Feelings
As the new school year approaches, education has been much on my mind. I’ll have a number or original articles …
The Tyranny Of Testing: Part 3, 2020
In the first article of this series I explained the incredible amount of time lost to mandatory, high-stakes testing (and …
The Tyranny Of Testing, Part 4, 2019
In the first three installments of this series (enter “the tyranny of testing” into the SMM homepage search bar), I …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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