Three Covid19 Lawsuits We Need
I was against masks and lockdowns and school closings in March 2020, so I’m close to losing my mind at this point. I find this return to lockdown and masks infuriating, and no media institution seems...
View ArticleFalse Positives
I quit writing about tests. And test prep. Five, six, years ago? I still taught test prep until this year, always giving in to my old employer’s pleas to teach his Saturday classes. But I largely quit...
View ArticleCelebrating the Decennium
December 31, 2011. I set a goal. The first ten years of the new century were a bit stressful and unfocused. The dot-com bust hit me hard. I found work but had a lot of down time. New Years’ goals...
View ArticleTen Most Read, Ten You Should Read
Eight years ago, on the second anniversary of my blog, I asked, “Am I a hedgehog or a fox?” Hilarious, that I could ever be so deluded. I understand why my brain thinks itself a hedgehog, but it will...
View ArticleSame Thing All Over Again–But Events Happen
Many, many irritating things happened during the omicron phase, things that sent me into a mild depressive episode. One happy note, however, was that the union obsessive pretense that covid19 is...
View ArticleBaraki, Caldeira, and Foolish Hysteria
(hey,kinda rhymes) Back in November, Abigail Shrier, a journalist who achieved notoriety by pointing how much of the trans movement involves girls in their early teens, revealed, with much fanfare,...
View ArticleThe Problems with Accountability
For years, I’ve rolled my eyes at all the earnest people talking about student learning, particularly in high school. Like the occasional think pieces on credit recovery, questioning them as an...
View ArticleLarry Cuban: Understanding the Stability of American Schools
(Disclosure: Larry Cuban is a friend, but my opinions on his value originated long before I met him.) Over 20 years ago, Franklin Foer extolled conventional wisdom (CW) and its avatar, David Gergen,...
View ArticleThe Pandemic Counterfactual
If only. If only the governors had just waited it out. Hung on for six more weeks. Once Mike DeWine stepped up and declared Ohio’s children an acceptable sacrifice to media demands, most of the other...
View ArticleEnding the year a decade later
Every year, right around now, I deeply regret transitioning into a teaching career. I speak, of course, of the end-of-the-year checkout. This is a miserable process and my hatred for it deepens each...
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