Wednesday, February 12, 2025
As?a?teacher for nine years,?Taylor Mali -- also a four-time National Poetry Slam champion -- is a staunch supporter of educators and he has a unique mission: to attract 1,000 new teachers to the field of...
In 2006 an Xavier High School English teacher named Ms. Lockwood gave her students an assignment: write a letter to a famous author. The instructions were to discuss the author's work and ask for advice....
Ohio State Representative Andrew Brenner?wrote on his blog recently that the US should sell off all public schools and real estate to private businesses to end socialism and teachers unions. Brenner, the?vice-chair of the Ohio House...
The speed at which we read could be dwarfed by this new technology.
This is like School House Rock for the new Millennium.
Tomorrow US Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) will unveil his new House budget plan. The 204 page critique will focus on slashing federal programs such as Medicaid and Head Start, and outlining a plan to reform...
During his debate last night with the Creation Museum president, Ken Ham, science educator Bill Nye made a simple yet profound response to an audience member's question. His answer: "I don't know." The question was how...
On November 2, in the final days of his campaign trail against Barbara Buono,?New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, showed his true colors with an angry condescending, finger-in-the face, tone at a teacher who was expressing...
In the city of Detroit, Michigan, a school bond of $1.5 billion was voted for in 1994 that started a cascade of debt that residents will be paying for until at least 2040. The original...
A billboard appeared near Flint, MI on I-69 close to the I-75 off-ramp this week with the simple message ?I'm concerned about the blueberries?. There is no information on the billboard about who paid for it...
When Texas changed its science curriculum standards, the science and science education community bristled, fearing that the 4-million strong purchasing power of Texas schools would push textbooks publishers to weaken the standards. The language of...
Homeschooling
Lets not pull any punches here. The Republican party is in shambles. The neo-cons of the party can no longer depend on the angry anti-government white males to carry them in national elections. This has set...
Republican State Senator Aaron Osmond of Utah?proposed to repeal mandatory schooling on his blog last week, arguing that public education has led parents to become apathetic and detached toward their children's learning and discipline. Before...
sex education and abortion bills in Texas
Texas Democrats have been pulling out the stops the last few weeks during the abortion debate. While the arguments rage and the bills fly there have been two in the past week that aren't abortion...
Texas is ranked 49th in the U.S. for education spending
Previously I wrote about how red states are harmful to children's livelihood?in the areas of public education spending, health care, and other social services. Moments after the story was published, news broke that Florida man...
The American education system is in dire need of reconstruction. In some countries, such as Finland, all schooling is public, and there is a no competition type environment. In the highly competitive society that America...
The GOP sex obsession...does it ever end? No. But?Rep.?Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) claims to?not like "this sexuality stuff." ?We think they doth protest too much.? Regarding sex-education in schools, Rep.?Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said?in an interview on "WallBuilders...
In December 2012, I covered the resignation of Stephen Round, an elementary school teacher who resigned his teaching job via YouTube. Read it below. A Providence Rhode Island veteran school teacher has resigned after 15 years...