The Frustrated Teacher

This Newshoggers story is an important read because it reminds us that McCain is dangerous, and Obama must win. Visit Newshoggers. Snatchi...

My house, which cost about 350K is now worth about 250K. I hope it goes up before my kid starts college! Here is a video that shows John M...

Over at LeaderTalk there is a post by Chris Hitch (not Hitchens) on how to handle the prima donna teacher. Basically, if a principal has a ...

Here's a rather sobering anti McBush ad. Pass it around.

Andrew J. Bacevich is a retired colonel who makes a lot of sense. Here he is on Moyers. Give this guy a position in government! I say brin...

We have an education angle in the new Democratic Platform . Unfortunately it bends towards the kind of reform I think is dangerous to publi...

Like we didn't know already, the Chinese Woman's Gymnastics team is in violation of the rules. They are supposed to be 16 in the Ol...

73 years ago today FDR gave us Social Security . Now let's see if I ever get to collect!

This is a fantastic development! A judge just ruled that the University of California can deny course credit to bible-thumpers!!!! Praise ...

They were planning on portraying Obama as unAmerican? No way!

But after a 10 hour drive, I am not ready to blog in earnest. Must shower, then sleep, then find out what happened while I was in the woods.

Inspired, in part, by Jay P. Greene I'm no NCLB expert. I'm not a professor of education, an education policy wonk or a teacher. ...

Hertzberg mouths off about gender- vs. race-discrimination I like what I've read from Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker , and I like w...

Yes, the boy and I are off for our annual camping trip. I doubt if there will be many posts between August 1 and August 10. Don't worr...

I don't know how I got there, but I ended up at cleveland.com reading some reactions to a pseudo-letter published in the Clevelnad Plai...