Education: In Search of Reason

An attorney and former public high-school English teacher examines some of the more absurd and counter-intuitive conventions of modern secondary education.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Conservative Pedagogy, Liberal Assessment

From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000 (applicable citations only): con-ser-va-tive (adj.) - 1...

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Moral Hazard

When studying the law, it is not enough to learn what the law is; one also must develop an appreciation of why the law is what it is. What a...

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Raising Grades, Not Achievement

A recent article in The New York Times revealed that in recent years, high school students’ class grades and GPAs have been steadily rising...

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Greetings, Educators

I've been a high school English teacher since 1997, mostly in the City of New York, and over the years I've seen and heard some pret...

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