Steven Singer Shares His Top Ten Posts of 2017
Steven Singer had a stellar year in 2017. He published a book and he posted some brilliant commentaries. He even got censored by Facebook, not...
Month : December 2017
Orlando Shakespeare Theater: Daring Flash Mob in the Mall
David Perry says: Love how they were in “disguise” as shoppers at the mall – particularly the girl on rollerblades! They’ll want to be careful...
Bob Shepherd’s New Year’s Resolutions
Bob Shepherd—teacher, assessment developer, textbook author, now teacher again—shares his resolutions for 2018: op Ten New Year’s Resolutions, 2018 |Bob Shepherd, Lifestyle Reporter, LALA Times...
Adell Cothorne, an Educator of Courage, Honesty, and Integrity
Earlier this year, Adell Cothorne won the Kenneth S. Goodman “In Defense of Good Teaching” Award at the University of Arizona. I was not aware...
John Dewey: My Pedagogic Creed
This seems to me like a good way to end a very difficult year. Every so often, it is useful to remember the...
If a Charter Chain Owns Two Luxury Condos, Can the Students Use the Hot Tub?
The Houston Chronicle has taken note of the unusual expenditures of a small charter chain that found it necessary to purchase two condos...
Bill Honig: The GOP Tax Bill Is Much Worse Than You Thought
Bill Honig, former State Superintendent of Education in California and owner of the Honig Vineyard, has closely studied the Republican Tax Plan and found that...
Carol Burris: Sex Scandals Happen in All Kinds of Schools: Public, Private, and Charter
Former TV anchor Campbell Brown made herself a big niche among education deformers by her repeated assertions that public schools were rife with sexual predators,...
Arthur Goldstein: Every Kid Can Learn, But…
Arthur Goldstein is a veteran high school teacher in New York City. In this post, he asserts that every child can learn, but there...
2017: A Great Year to Be Very, Very Rich
Our reader, who identifies herself as Carolmalaysia, posted this comment: She writes: I can understand why Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates need tax breaks. Thank...