On Monday I wrote: I don’t think I’ve had a student anxiety dream in many years. Maybe there are some perks to getting this old. I do recall that, a decade or two ago, I had the student anxiety dream … Continue reading →
Commenter “Socratease” calls my calculus class “the stuff of nightmares.” That is quite literally true, because after experiencing the horror of that class, and the ensuing and resounding “F” I received (my first and only in a long student career), … Continue reading →
I’m not sure why I initially clicked on this article in New York Magazine entitled “The Battle of Grace Church What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.” Maybe because … Continue reading →
Great idea, Bernie: Bernie Sanders put it clearly: “We’re going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and open that to the undocumented.” In other words, if are a citizen of another country and you want a free college education, … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] By now you may have heard of Richard Carranza, the current chancellor of the New York City public school system. He was appointed by NYC mayor de Blasio, and he’s made quite a … Continue reading →
Did you know that, in New York City, Asians have become some sort of
Continue reading →The kids outlasted the testers, and eight winners were left standing: Eight spellers were better than the dictionary. They were better than anything the Scripps National Spelling Bee could throw at them. And they all ended up with a hand … Continue reading →
Here’s a lawsuit that may go all the way to the Supreme Court: During the 2014-2015 school year, a Christian teenage girl was forced to recite the Islamic conversion creed — the Shahada — in writing for her 11th-grade class. … Continue reading →
The College Board, which has been devising and administering the test known as the SATs, has announced the latest tweak they’ve devised to try to even the playing field: The College Board, which oversees the SAT exam used by most … Continue reading →
Maybe it doesn’t even matter which it is, because the impulse is the same whether it’s supposedly religious or supposedly secular/leftist: to destroy history and its representations and replace them with the new orthodoxy. The deeper motive is to indoctrinate … Continue reading →
I can’t say that the results of this attempt at intervention are especially surprising: San Francisco allows parents to apply to any elementary school in the district, having done away with traditional school zoning 18 years ago in an effort … Continue reading →
When I read about the college entrance bribe scandal, the first question that came to my mind was what did these parents think was going to happen when their kids got into a school for which they were neither prepared … Continue reading →