Live By the Data, Die By the D...
In the 1950s, there was a very popular television show called Naked City. It began something like this: “There are eight...
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Child Murdered in School: Refl...
When the Department of Education is asleep at the wheel, it is more by policy than accident. If a tragedy results, they will jump...
read moreTalented and Gifted Controvers...
There is needless strife surrounding the proposed abolition of traditional “gifted and talented” programs in our schools....
read moreTeaching–Job or Professi...
Is teaching a job or a profession? Six of one, half-dozen . No difference. Or to the extent there is, it is...
read moreExcused Mental Health Absence ...
If the theme of proposed legislation sounds compassionate and serves to provide name-recognition to an ambitious politician,...
read moreStudents’ Nazi Video
Around a dozen students at Pacifica High School in Southern California, giving the “Heil Hitler” salute, recently marched...
read moreA Sacred Right of Teachers
Four months after being removed from his leadership position for tampering with teacher-given student grades without their prior...
read moreEye in the Classroom Sky
The Florida Department of Education is playing with fire while walking a tightrope. They say they just want to be safe. They...
read moreBias Training
The Department of Education’s mandated “bias training” could be the “third rail” of education...
read morePograms on the College Quad an...
Betsy DeVos, the improbable and should have been impossible but nonetheless Senate-confirmed ( by the vice-president’s...
read moreFraud: Paltry and Non-Actionab...
For undisclosed reasons, the Department of Education recently removed the probationary principal of a high school from his...
read moreFirst Amendment as Government&...
“When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment...
read moreBe A Responsible Worker: Don&#...
Teachers suffering, for example, from cancer whose survival depends on treatment extending beyond the ten days ‘sick...
read moreFirst Amendment: Weaponized or...
“When public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, they are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment...
read moreRegents Exams: Pull the Plug?
Why do people who know better often consent to being fooled? Who is kidding whom? By and large, graduating high school...
read moreSchool Custodians
School custodians historically have either gotten a bad rap or are underestimated and taken for granted. Sometimes even the...
read moreHeatstroke and Learning Joys
“Thank you, Nature, for sparing us embarrassment by not putting us to the test!” That could be the Department of...
read moreSTEM OR STEAM?
School systems across our country are scrambling to play “catch up” with the stress on science, technology, engineering...
read moreThe Bronx Global Learning Inst...
“Things are seldom what they seem. Skim milk masquerades as cream” These lines from a 19th century operetta were...
read moreFood For Belly and Food For Th...
First the body: The summer meals program that began last week in over a thousand public schools and other sites citywide offers free...
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