It has probably happened to EVERYONE in education. They have read a memo from on-high, they have observed a classroom practice, they have overheard a conversation, they have been lectured to by their principal or superintendent, they have read something in the newspaper.... and a huge red flag unfurled, buzzers  began sounding, and a voice started booming in their head: well, that's just nuts.…

 A melancholy acknowledgment that our Education Establishment has successfully sabotaged traditional education in virtually every situation.

 Instead, public schools tend to do things in the most chaotic and least efficient ways. You can look at reading, math, history, science, you can look at every grade, and every corner of the school, and you will find that progressive education muddles everything and makes it less…

 Is anyone following the  Atlanta cheating scandal?  It’s the biggest in the nation’s history. Last week  a dozen people were sentenced to jail. Two participants have so far died.

Here for me is the really interesting part. You can read a long article in the New York Times (that being the preeminent symbol of media that no longer does investigative journalism) and not have any idea what actually happened.

 When you hear people talk about…