Yes We Can But Will We?
Yes we can but will we? Obama challenges the cynics, but are we really wrong? On Tuesday, Chicago's Grant Park flooded with a myriad of Obama enthusiasts...
Worst Teacher Contest May Be a Tie
Teachers really need to get paid more, if only to weed out deadbeats like the following. In my search for something either awesome or atrocious to write...
"No Child Left Behind" leaves inner city schools behind
No Child Left Behind seems to regard poor, inner city schools as a disease to be cut out. No Child was, initially, meant to force schools to bring all...
S.C. Department of Education Separating the Men from the Gals
(image) You can forget about Baby X. Single-gender classrooms may very well be in our immediate future thanks to South Carolina Department of Education...
Mexico, Seattle, Reproductive Rights, Graduations: A Few of My Favorite Things
(image) I love this story. Maria Luisa Sánchez-Fuentes graduated Friday with her Masters in Public Administration from my alma mater, the University of...
Chris Gores Footage Fetishes: Attend the Cinematic School of Life
Knowledge is power. That statement is especially true when attempting to break into the movie business. All you need to begin your career in the film...
United Nations: UK/US are Worst Places to Grow Up
Not that we couldnt have told them this 10 years ago, but today the United Nations has declared the United Kingdom the worst place to grow up, out of...
A Return to Same Sex Education?
In what appears, at least on the surface, to be a bizarre backpedal to bygone days of single-sex education, the US Department of Education has decided to...
Stephen Hawking is Looking for a Graduate Assistant
Stephen Hawking, the legendary author of A Brief History of Time is looking for a graduate assistant, according to the Guardian UK: You also have to be...
Girls Rule. Boys Drool, but Damn, Do They Love Football!
They're calling it the "boy crisis." As a blogger, my emphasis is on West Coast literature and art, but as an educator, an educated woman...