Sixty years ago tomorrow the United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education . What was Amer...

Teachers, imagine you had $1.7 billion to spend this year to buy good books and hand them out to students. Do you think average reading scor...

As a veteran teacher (now retired), I’ve long been interested in the role parents play in American education. I spent 33 years in a class...

I’ve been trying to write a book about teaching and decided there wasn’t room for this chapter about slavery. Perhaps it will give other edu...

I remember attending an in-service day and listening to a gentleman say that we should do more to decorate the walls of our classrooms. He...

As many of my friends (and my long-suffering wife) realize, I’ve been working for a long time on a book about teaching. If I had earned mini...