The “Lower Expectations” of Common Core Math
Berkeley mathematics professor Marina Ratner writes for the Wall Street Journal that California’s Common Core standards “were vastly inferior to the old California standards in rigor, depth and the...
View ArticleStudent Arrested for Writing about Killing a Dinosaur with a Gun
Here is today’s not-an-Onion story: “A 16-year-old Summerville High School student says he was arrested Tuesday morning and suspended after writing about killing a dinosaur using a gun,” WCSC reports...
View ArticleJeffco’s Julie Williams Seeks to Replace One Brand of Activist Teaching with...
Recently in Jefferson County, Colorado (my home county), teachers have staged “sick outs,” and students have staged walk-outs, largely to protest a proposal by school board member Julie Williams “to...
View ArticleRoundup on Jeffco Schools
I’ve written four articles (three for other sites) about the protests and union-board fights in Jefferson County, Colorado: 1. Jeffco’s Julie Williams Seeks to Replace One Brand of Activist Teaching...
View Article“Let the Human Species Die Out”—Colorado Students React to Environmentalist...
Benjamin Dancer believes “the most important issue we have to tackle as a species” is “the unintended consequences of continued population growth.” And that’s a lesson he taught to his English class at...
View ArticleBan Spanking at School
Should Colorado legislators ban spanking in public schools? Absolutely. First my own experience: I grew up mostly in and around the peach orchards of Western Colorado, where my grandfather was a...
View ArticleIn Trump Piñata Case, Greeley Tribune Shamefully Blames Victim for Threats
What’s crazy is not that a Colorado teacher let his students smash a piñata with pictures of Donald Trump and Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto on it; that was merely foolish. What’s crazy is what...
View ArticleWhy Vouchers Subsidize Religion
When government helps to finance the operations of a religious organization, it violates the rights of the people whose wealth it forcibly takes for the purpose. Such funding violates not only people’s...
View ArticleMichael Donnelly on Homeschooling and the Law
Michael Donnelly, Senior Counsel and Director of Global Outreach with the Home School Legal Defense Association, discusses the motivations for homeschooling and the legal aspects of it, with a special...
View ArticleSteve Spangler on Engaging Science
Steve Spangler, host of DIY Sci, discusses how parents and teachers can foster kids’ love of science and help children discover their “spark” in life. He also shares his thoughts on the development and...
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