I am very protective of my little brother. I have autism and he does too, along with ADHD. He's  a lot younger--I  am a sophomore in high school and he's entering the second grade. He's  getting to the age where I started to really have problems in school and that makes me even more protective.

I've written about it before, but at his age, I really struggled with…

When physicians decided to go from performing surgery on cancerous tumors to adding pumping chemicals into patients' bodies and then exposing them to targeted radiation was there a clamor by the public to call this "a bit adorable"?  Actually it has continued as the protocol for many, even though to a non-medically trained ear, it sounds "a bit frightening. "Think about changes in the medical world. No one outside of the profession would feel they had a voice in a progressive move…

Schools continually examine where they are in relationship to where they want to be. In that process, they have to determine their effectiveness, the practices to hold dear and those to release. That is different from what has happened over these past few decades.  As change has occurred, in order to learn and change and adapt, some things have been abandoned that should be brought back but with a new spin, adapting to today's environment. …

Educational leaders are public servants. There is little room in public budgets (or in public acceptance) for the care of those who are paid with public funds. Yet, the life price to be paid for being the CEO and the school leader can be similar. Tremendous responsibility, little tolerance for error and stress is part of the work. Read…

Newspapers, magazines, and journals today are filled with articles about the evils of grades. Writers tell us that grades warp student motivation, destroy the morale of teachers, and corrupt the education process. The solution most suggest is to do away with grades completely so that students focus more on learning. But while the pursuit of high grades can divert some students' attention from the true purpose of education, abandoning grades will not solve these problems.…