The Tyranny of Testing 2018, Part 1
At the end of May, 2013, I began what would turn into a four part series on the problem of …
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California: Illiterate Progressive Paradise
Why are progressive paradises such cesspools of crime, violence, sexual harassment, political corruption, bankruptcy, and now, illiteracy? Isn’t progressivism/socialism/communism supposed …
Yesterday I could not spel “techur,” today I are one!
As regular readers know, I am less than enthusiastic about government mandated testing of any kind. Not only is it …
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. …
Disaster, Texas Style
As the nation is focused on the flooding in Houston and the rest of Southeastern Texas, and as the media …
Zorro Rides Again?
It was Zorro. As a child, I loved Zorro. I didn’t realize his sword was merely a more or less …
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 …
Texas: American Values
I find myself, virtually daily, amused and annoyed by the dim-witted emanations of the self-imagined elite of the media and …
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 …
CNN: The Most Thuggish Name In News
This, gentle readers, is what happens when the self-imagined intellectual and moral elite lose all sense of responsibility and restraint. …
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, …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 2
In Testing Tyranny, Part 1, I focused on how mandatory, high stakes testing is destroying the canon, removing enormous amounts …
Education: Testing Tyranny, Part 1
I last updated this series of article in 2014. Much has changed since then, but the problems presented by mandatory, high …
