Yesterday I read about a Canadian youngster who was reprimanded and sent home from school for stopping a bully who was threatening another child with a knife. “We don’t condone heroics in this school,” said the principal. Now today I Read More
Dick Cavett has made a career out of verbiage and badinage, and he quips as cleverly as ever he did in his recent New York Times“Opinionator” column on the subject of homeschooling (in a mostly ad hominem attack on presidential candidate Rick Santorum). Sadly for Dick, as even ancient Greeks Read More
Finland has had recent surprising successes in measures such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s PISA survey, which compares the fifteen-year-old students of various countries in reading, math, and science. For the past decade, Finland has ranked at Read More
Rick Roach took the test and started something. Roach, a four-time official on the Board of Education in Orange County, Florida, one of the largest school systems in America with 180,000 students, took the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test), Florida’s Read More
Jonah Mowry posted this video of himself about his fear and despair at the thought of starting 8th grade, because of the severe bullying he has experienced since 1st grade … and he started cutting himself in 2nd grade. At Read More
I’d like to answer this question from a public school teacher ranting on homeschooling: “So, first of all, homeschooling parent, you think you can teach English as well as me?” Actually, Mr. Scaccia, I find myself wondering if you can teach Read More
“In the first place God made idiots. That was for practice. Then He made school boards.” So says the wisdom of Mark Twain, and just this week, two separate incidents prove he’s not far off base. SHELTON, CONNECTICUT: High school Read More
Five Texas schools will participate in an experimental study to record on video everything that children eat in the cafeteria. Each student is assigned a food tray with a bar code, a picture is snapped of the tray after the Read More
A kindergartner in Queen Creek, Arizona, was suspended from school for thinking about bringing a knife to school. Not to hurt anyone; he just happened to see a folding pocketknife on his way to school and picked it up to Read More
According to Time Magazine, schools are starting to ban Silly Bandz, rubber wristbands that snap into shapes rather than simple circles when removed from the wrist. “Students fiddle with them during class and arrange swaps … when they should be Read More