“Are You Popular?” An Educational Film from the 1940s
When you think of the late 1940s, do you think about President Truman? Here is an educational film from 1947: “Are You Popular?” The lesson:...
Category : History
An Important New Book About New Orleans and Its Schools
Three scholars have recently published a very informative book about the history of education in New Orleans. The authors tell this story by scrutinizing one...
Tom Ultican: Why I Support Public Education
Tom Ultican explains why he spends so much of his time fighting for public schools. The original cause for my supporting public education was that...
My Signal Contribution to the U.S. Department of Education
When I served in the George H.W. Bush administration, I was Assistant Secretary for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. OERI, as it was...
Jack Schneider: What is “Public” about Public Education?
Jack Schneider is a historian of education at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. He and Jennifer Berkshire recently published a superb book, A Wolf...
The Smartest Horse Ever?
This is not an April Fools Day joke. It is just a great story. While searching for something on the web, I came across this...
Bayard Rustin: A Remembrance
My youngest grandson is in second grade. His class was studying Black History, and each student was asked to make a project. He chose to...
Victoria E.M. Cain: A Brief and Sobering History of Technology in the Classroom
During the pandemic, most schools turned to remote learning as a matter of necessity. Some in the education biz think that the pandemic has created...
This Is What a Great National Leader Looks Like
This is a wonderful and well-deserved tribute to Angela Merkel, who recently stepped down as leader of Germany and (for now) leader of the western...
Paul Thomas: The “Science of Reading” Is Recycled from the Past
Paul Thomas, an experienced high school teacher who became an experienced college professor at Furman University in South Carolina, writes here about the ongoing controversy...