July 28, 2023This week yet another New York Times piece by Harvard and Stanford “experts” warned of the devastating learning loses sustained…
March 3, 2023[Editor's note: Educators may find "A Mathematician's Lament," cited and linked in this essay, interesting reading.] Evidently phonics instruction…
February 3, 2023"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not…
December 23, 2022“Because they need it.” - Whitney Tilson Tilson is a multimillionaire hedge fund manager who is a major supporter of…
November 27, 2022For months, she struggled silently with a sense of worthlessness. She had panic attacks that left her trembling. Nightmares that…
October 27, 2022It was well past midnight. I awoke with a start as a silhouette appeared in my dorm room doorway. My…
September 23, 2022“The beatings will continue until morale improves” is a rather familiar quip of unknown origin. Two recent news stories remind…
March 30, 2022Last week my grandchildren, Maddie and Jack, were in an out-of-school production of Cinderella. My wife, Maddie’s and Jack’s parents,…
January 14, 2022“Just pull yourself up by the bootstraps!” This exclamation captures the prevailing attitude of many Americans, mostly conservatives, toward the…
October 8, 2021“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” - Pablo Picasso We are in…
