Science teacher

I have been nipping at the heels of Achieve for a flawed draft attempting to push their corporate world-view into public schools. The b...

While some schools have fancy Madagascar hissing cockroaches, we made do with an American cockroach, the huge one found in norther Jersey. ...

Update: turns one co-founder is Christine Healey DeVaull; her Dad, Bob Healey, made a fortune selling luxury boats , and now shares some of ...

The No Child Left Behind law requires that 100% of children in public education are proficient in math and reading (in English) by 2014. T...

This graphic from Adbusters was shared by someone on the AP Biology listserve. Issue #84: Nihilism and Revolution There's not muc...

"Remember when..." Late June is a great time to be an American. Stories are told during the long, soft dusk. Lightning bugs almo...

So, yes, improving education in math and science is about producing engineers and researchers and scientists and innovators who are going to...

These words started as a visceral response to a friend who coined "The One-Boobed Systyrs of the Apocalypse." She's still fig...

My sister believed that so long as people are capable of change, and they are, we keep fighting. I believe that within a decade or two, g...

Arne Duncan and company just gave Achieve.org $170 million to develop tests to make sure your child is corporate ready once she leaves high...

"The days of telling kids to go home at 2:30 and having mom there with a peanut butter sandwich, those days are gone....the hours fro...

As part of the show-and-tell of working in grant funded projects taking care of very poor kids in very devastated cities. I got to meet CEO...

It's July--the sun still reigns, but as it slips slowly away, sordid disorder slips in. Gardens get weedy, wasps a tad touchy. June fool...

I have an unhealthy (and perhaps unnatural) dislike of oligarchs. Bill Gates plans to leave $10,000,000 to each of his children because he ...

Please tell me this is a spoof, that the oligarchs infecting Arne's brain like earwigs* do not believe that this is what it's all ab...

What matters? If a child had true control over her education, and she truly understood what matters, would she sit in my class? Ah, yes, int...

Young children, 2 to 5 years old, spend over 3 1/2 hours a day in front of televisions. Preschool children need about 12 hours of sleep a...

This is a longish rant meant mostly for me-- it will be as effective as screaming into a pillow, and, I hope, just as comforting. Last nigh...