Every kid looks forward to summer. You stay up later, sleep in, swim, and go to camp all day long. There's no homework or tests, and your family takes that...
A plethora of important issues regarding public education vie for attention today. This makes it difficult to choose one thing that I, as a veteran teacher, would change to improve...
Thirty years ago, we learned from the report A Nation At Risk: the Imperative for Educational Reform that American students lagged far behind their international peers on a number of benchmarks.
The findings...
Early in my career, before I was married, I admit that I enjoyed all the comments and attention that came with being a male elementary school teacher. "Awww, that's so...
We are at the halfway point of summer and now is a great time to take advantage of the wonderful learning opportunities offered during the break.
No longer constrained by the...
When we think of unemployment, we often think of its immediate effects: people who are unemployed are unable to earn a regular salary, and are therefore unable to pay their...
