Collecting My Thoughts

Christopher Rufo is the new "hate on him" guy that the Left loves to ridicule and demean. Why? Because he exposes Wokeism, CRT, tr...

"Education Week--Teacher" on-line features a story on "disinformation" and how teachers can combat it, but the company e...

I was reading a summary of an article on critical race theory in education about black teachers. I think 5 people were interviewed and from ...

At the K-12 level, the risk of Covid to children is low. The Wall St.  Jou...

"When I mentioned to my liberal wife that my next book would be dedicated to the defense of patriotism, as an antidote to growing divis...

Larry Burkett wrote a book, "What ever happened to the American dream," Moody Press, 1993. The year Bill Clinton took office. Usua...

Driving to the fitness center today I heard a caller to a local radio (610 a.m.) show say she'd hired a teen to do some work (didn't...

“Recent educational philosophy has been that it doesn't matter WHAT children read as long as they DO read. I am glad I grew up and went ...

I was in elementary school in the 1940s--they weren't "teaching" Bible then, although it was read occasionally. It's a bad...

Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) "Just an observation: When schools treat an election as a traumatic event — often via their programs on ...

Yes, Common Core is a problem, but it is also a symptom--points back to the creation of the federal Department of Education in the 1970s. Li...

A friend’s daughter is trying to do a photo essay on our local school levy, but can’t find a yard sign to photograph.  I don't support i...

You can't pray, read the Bible, or discuss Creationism, but you can promote your union. "If teacher unions want to be strong and we...

Libertarians, Democrats, some Republicans and Socialist/Progressives/Communists were horrified that George W. Bush was reading to school chi...

Ohio HB 176--protection for pedophiles? Yesterday I received an email alerting me to Ohio HB 176 , which makes a number of changes in the O...

Those who flunk Flunk isn't a word used in education circles these days. Now it is "persistence," or "retention" o...

A warehouse full of abandoned hope If you don't like Bush's NCLB, maybe you'll prefer what the Democrats have done in Detroit? ...