by admin | Mar 6, 2022 | Education, Essay, Nonfiction, Politics
Camera in a Classroom Iowa Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would force all public-school classrooms to have a camera that would livestream classes which parents and guardians could view online. Under the bill, school staff who did not keep...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | Economics, Education, Essay, Nonfiction
We, the people, the teachers and parents, the brothers and sisters, the adults and the children, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, and ensure domestic tranquility, require an educational system that allows our children to learn not simply...
by admin | Sep 6, 2019 | Education, Essay, Nonfiction
Author’s Note: I wrote this essay in October, 2003. I’m publishing it now because, it seems to me, we have arrived at the Destination described herein. If you disagree, please leave a comment and tell me why. If you agree, you’re welcome to...
by admin | Aug 28, 2019 | Education, Language, Nonfiction, Politics
I’m often referred to as a Grammar Nazi, and many of my friends take delight in finding errors I’ve made in something I’ve posted. I am embarrassed, and I fix the error promptly. But, most people are thinking, “What difference does it make anyway?”...
by admin | Jun 1, 2019 | Autobiography, Education, Essay, Nonfiction
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost A few days ago, the first principal for whom I ever taught found me on Facebook,...
