If Hedge Funds Gobble Up the Free Press, Will Freedom of the Press Survive?
The New York Times reported on a huge merger of newspapers. In August, Gannett, the parent company of USA Today and more than 100 other...
Month : November 2019
Peter Greene’s Rules for Life
“You are not necessarily going to be great. But you can always be better.” I like that thought.………………………………. President Donald Trump posted his Thanksgiving message...
Jack Hassard: Facts Are Facts
Jack Hassard taught science and science teachers for many years. He clings to the old-fashioned idea that “facts are facts.” He is offended by the...
How an ER Nurse Got Stuck with a Bill for $899,000 Until ProPublica Called Her Employer
Imagine this: an emergency room nurse gives birth to a premature baby. She gets a bill for $898,984 from her employer. She thought she had...
Robert Kuttner (and I) Challenge the New York Times Slant on Charter Schools
Many people have written to me to complain about an article that appeared Wednesday on the front page of the New York Times, saying it...
John Thompson on Natalie Wexler’s Book
John Thompson is a historian and a retired teacher in Oklahoma. He writes: I have very strong, positive and negative feelings about Natalie Wexler’s The Knowledge...
Evgeny Morozov on the “Moral Bankruptcy of Techno-Elites”
Evgeny Morozov writes about the political and social implications of technology. In this fascinating article, Morozov reveals and condemns the moral and intellectual vacuity of...
Tom Ultican: I-Ready Sells 50-Year-Old Educational Failure
Tom Ultican writes here that the i-Ready program is “Outcomes Based Education” in a new dress. It is, he writes, a fake innovation. He writes:...
Happy Thanksgiving: A Meditation on Religious Liberty
Happy Thanksgiving! Today is a day when we pause and give thanks to whatever deity we worship (or not) for the blessings we enjoy: our...
Research: Teacher Effects on Student Height: A Cautionary Tale
WASHINGTON — Elementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students’ standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students’ lives...