Collecting My Thoughts

From time to time, I read that some conservatives want to dump the federal Department of Education because of the poor performance of our pu...

ABC is reporting on a new "transparency" movement on salaries led in part by a Tik Tok spox/influencer. I heard the usual, especia...

“2020 Democratic presidential contender Sen. Kamala Harris is on a mission to close the pay gap for America's teachers, something she sa...

Some questioned my figures for hourly wages for teachers (in a post about the union strike in Colorado on Facebook) being on average $60/hou...

           When my Grandmother Mary wanted to be a school teacher in the late 1800s she was turned down by the Ashton school board because ...

How much should a fast food worker who hasn't finished high school earn? Perhaps half of what a school teacher, who has a B.S. and M.S. ...

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...

Although this story is from the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, it's business as usual for teachers' unions. Most teachers are ...

Public school teachers have unions and all the perks. They are well paid and have terrific pensions awaiting them after 30 years, some in t...

4074 Glut of teachers in southwestern Ohio Today's paper reported (AP) that school districts in Warren County are being flooded by app...

3458 Catching up on education There was an item in USAToday Feb. 7 reporting that 15% of high school students passed Advanced Placement i...