"College professor should be more involved in K-12 education" is the actual title of what I think is a very important article.

The basic idea is that college and university people tend to think they can stay up In the clouds. Meanwhile K-12 is stuck in mediocrity. Children are coming up to the college level who don't have basic skills. These poorly prepared children will…

 I've written several articles about classical education, and finally came up with this sweeping epiphany: if you tossed out what is typically done in public schools and dropped in a classical education curriculum, two things would happen: schools would get much better and the costs would go down.

 I just interviewed Laurie Thomas, author of a new book called "Not Trivial--how studying the traditional liberal arts can set you free."

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HAVE SPORTS TEAMS BROUGHT DOWN AMERICA’S SCHOOLS?

Career Advice: Getting Beyond First-Year Teaching Jitters

Your first year of teaching is kind of like your first truly gruesome photo from a high school formal dance. The excessive hair gel, the unfortunate choice of…

The Pop! of the Wild

By AARON HIRSH

IF you put your head underwater in the Sea of Cortez, you will hear a crackling sound. In my summer field course for…

Bixhorn: Long Island's senior class lives in a different world

Originally published: September 6, 2013 5:01 PM

Updated: September 6, 2013 8:53 PM

Newsday

By GARY D. BIXHORN  

Photo credit: iStock Photo |

The Long Island high school Class of 2014 has returned to school. For the majority, graduation will be the culmination of a 13-year public…

The Great Stagnation of American Education

Javier Jaén…

What Words Would You Love to Ditch?

A Sandy Hook Parent's Letter to Teachers

Ed Week

As another school year begins and old routines settle back into place, I wanted to share my story in honor of the teachers everywhere who care for our children.

I lost…

The Importance of Students Feeling “Known” 

“Feeling valued as a member of the school community means believing that people genuinely care about who you are as an individual,” says consultant Russell Quaglia in this interview with Lawrence Hardy in American School Board Journal. “The percentage is low because teachers do not show students that they care about them in ways that are perceptible to students… Of course teachers care – they just…

The short version is this: Common Core is a federal takeover of American education, probably not a good thing in itself. However, if the Education Establishment had been doing a good job for the last 50 years, we might feel confident they would improve matters. But why would the same people, given much more power, suddenly start doing a good job???

I think they'll continue doing the same bad job or even worse. But the amount of jargon, hype and malarkey will…

Not Very Giving

By ROB REICH

NY Times

Published: September 4, 2013 81 Comments…

Who Will Prosper in the New World

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