New school years always bring new challenges for children, parents and teachers. This school year, though, promises to be much trickier,…
If you care deeply about social and racial justice, value equal opportunity, detest discrimination and believe that this country needs to…
Fresh off her controversial nomination, controversial nomination process and eventual confirmation, the most inexperience Education Secretary in this country's history, Betsy DeVos,…
There's a certain perverse pride public educators should feel due to the fact that Betsy DeVos, the nominee for Secretary of…
Just remember: Most voters rejected Donald Trump's vision of the United States. They rejected his rhetoric, his vile comments about women…
The great divide in American public attitudes is most evident during Presidential election years, and this year is no different. Republicans…
I sort of forgot that Chris Christie was still the Governor of New Jersey and an active politician until this week,…
The end result is in reach for those conservatives who have worked so hard to destroy public sector unions and along…
Seeing as how I'm an education dinosaur, having taught for the past 32 years, I've seen many a fad, meme, phase…
I've been in the education business for 31 years and I've seen many a fad come and go, from Teacher-proof curricula…
OK, let's go back to the halcyon days of the 1969-70 school year when I was in fourth grade. My teacher…
The week began with the president saying that there was too much emphasis on testing in schools. In the middle of…