Last month The Wall Street Journal reported on the 2011 SAT test results, noting that the writing scores were the lowest they had ever been, continuing a downward spiral that began in 2006, the first year student writing skills had been tested...
With each passing day, more and more information is coming forth regarding the massive cheating scandal in the Atlanta Public School system. A report by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) indicates that at least 178 named teachers and...
On June 13 of this year, the president of the Catholic University of America, John Garvey, announced that next fall’s incoming freshman class would be housed in single-sex dorms. In other words, males would live in all-male dorms while females would...
Waiting for Superman, the controversial documentary about public education and its many failures, was not nominated for an Academy Award. Perhaps it did not make the list because it was highly critical of teachers, their powerful unions, and boards...
As a public high school teacher for thirty-six years, I was required to participate in parent-teacher conferences twice a year. For most teachers, such conferences were generally regarded as, at best, moderately useful, and, at worst, a complete...
