I'm way smarter than normal teachers. Therefore, I rule.  Every so often, I find myself agreeing with something Michelle Rhee ...

The Business Model in Education: Grading on the Curve. SOME DAYS, YOUR BLOG JUST WRITES ITSELF and on this Thanksgiving Day, I’m thank...

There's no substitute for a good home. THERE SEEMS TO BE A GENERAL CONSENSUS abroad in America today that schools are failing and ou...

If you missed it, an editorial in the New York Times yesterday, by Thomas L. Friedman , "uncovered" an ugly truth.  Apparently, pa...

IF YOU HAVEN’T NOTICED Americans are much thinner than they were a few months ago. That’s when the federal government wisely changed eat...

IF YOU SAW RICK PERRY'S MOST RECENT DEBATE PERFORMANCE you know it was... um...not marked by...uh...Let me think. Give me a second. Oops...

Too tiny and nice to be a union thug.    I WOKE UP TODAY AND LOOKED in the mirror and felt pretty good. Well, yeah. There were all ...