No Dewey-eyed dreamers here
When people want to mock ed schools and the low IQ of the students within them, they often go straight to the coursework. Millions of pages mocking absurd ed school projects have been offered up as evidence that lordy, America’s teachers are none too bright. Do not confuse my disdain for those mockers as defense [ ]
“Consistently, for decades, those college students who have majored in education have been among the least qualified of all college students”—Thomas Sowell, 1993 (and thousands of others before and since) Writing about teacher certification procedures should be simple. There are a few well-known pathways, they differ in obvious ways, and any reasonably organized person could [ ]
I’ve mentioned that I disagree with Helen Andrews’ Great Feminization treatise, just as I disagreed with her Boomers Fucked the World Up book. I like Helen Andrews in much the way I like Rick Hess—we see the world the same but then they state their conclusions and I’m like, huh? No. I am Valentin to their Peter, for [ ]
Three widespread cheating rings in nearly 30 years and the stories get dropped almost immediately by the national media. Why?
I originally planned on following up on my group projects assignment within a week, but got distracted by semantics. I’ll probably put that in another piece some day. Like many people, I conflate the terms “group work” and “group projects” in discussions. But they are totally different activities. “Group work” in the educational world refers to [ ]
While a lot of "group work" is forced, group projects are an essential part of education. And while freeloaders are a problem, they aren't the only personality type that needs handling.
Original publication: 01/02/25 In late October, The Free Press published Abigail Shrier’s1 article Kindergarten Intifada. Shrier’s charge that “[t]here is a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel” would benefit much from a better understanding of important issues in education.2 So I thought I’d…
(originally published: 12/25/24) I first noticed Abigail Shrier when she made the podcast rounds to discuss her first book. I didn’t like her style, but didn’t think much of it. Then she wrote a series of blog posts that claimed to show how “activist teachers recruit kids” into….being transgender, I guess. I wrote about her articles and their shocking ignorance on basic school policy, because it […
Originally published on substack: 11/3/2024 A third of teachers like their jobs, and while that’s a little less than the half of Americans who enjoy their work, it’s not so far off that we shouldn’t explore other reasons for this difference. Like, say, teachers are disproportionately attracted to the career for the public approbation and [ ]
The last time I taught US History was in spring 2017, and it was the shit. Trump had just won and as my readers know, I live and teach in deepest of blue blue lands. Thirty students who d never really thought much about politics, assumed any Trump voters were evil, had been assured that Republicans [ ]