By ending junk degrees: Trump shuts down the Mamdani voter pipeline
No more trash degrees. That’s what President Trump is getting rid of. And it can’t come soon enough. According to…
Stop Praising All Our ‘Wonderful’ Teachers
As a teacher for over two decades, I’m allowed to criticize people who regularly extol all the wonderful teachers in…
Equipping Schoolchildren for a Better America
As the nation soon celebrates its 250th birthday, it is worth recalling that religious freedom and practice were vital to…
A fiasco for education in…Texas?
The Texas State Board of Education has voted to remove from the curriculum the “shot heard round the world” and…
Research can prove anything–even envy
For much of my teaching career, I taught Gifted and Talented—GT–classes. Also known as Advanced Placement—AP—classes, they were rewarding for…
Families don’t need perfection—they need connection
As a teacher with more than twenty years of classroom experience working with students from kindergarten through high school, I…
Education Scorecard Ignores Common Core disaster
American students are in a deep learning recession. Fourth and eighth-graders are scoring worse in reading and math than a…
A California school district goes all in for thug culture
Once upon a time, California had it all. It had a perfect, welcoming climate, a reasonable cost of living, a…
From Tying Shoes to Artificial Intelligence
Cleaning out the attic, I recently came across my daughter’s first pair of walking shoes. They were the white leather…
Don’t know much about algebra
The title comes from a 1977 song, “(What a) Wonderful World,” by Art Garfunkel (with Paul Simon and James Taylor…