Woody Allen famously said, “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” If he’s right, that’s bad news for some 30 percent of public school students who, according to a recent study conducted by Stanford professor Thomas Dee, were chronically absent…
A “Satan Club” is set to start this Friday at an elementary school in Lebanon, Connecticut. The club is sponsored by the Satanic Temple, which has chapters internationally. Supporters of the club have cited its founding as a counter to…
As a friend of mine put it at the time of his confirmation in March 2021, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona “doesn’t strike one as the sharpest tool in the shed.” An academic colleague of mine added in an email…
Robin Hood is the quintessential, swashbuckling, English-speaking hero. He’s a rebellious figure with an impeccable moral compass and the will and ability to enforce it. The wrong he seeks to right is — as one might expect from an English…
Some bullying tactics never change, but you would hope that people would eventually grow out of them. It seems the United States Department of Agriculture never did. Last year, the USDA proposed a rule change that would pressure public and…
Peel School District — located in Ontario, Canada, and bordering Toronto — is reportedly weeding books from its libraries with publication dates prior to 2008. The district’s school board has yet to respond specifically to parents’ and Ontario officials’ questions,…
Phonics works. It teaches children to sound out words simply and efficiently. The problem with it? Nothing, except “educators” always think there’s some better way to do things. That was Lucy Calkins and the Columbia Teachers College Reading and Writing…
On Friday, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued a full pardon for the dad convicted of resisting arrest during a 2021 Loudon County School Board meeting. Two years ago, a video of Scott Smith, the father of a Loudon County high…
Pronouns are back in the news. And, no, we’re not talking about neopronouns, the latest gloss on language insanity given an injection of immediacy by CNN, among others. You may have seen these odd words in print — “xe/xyr,” “ze/zir,”…
