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Sometimes, if you're lucky, you get a student who gives you a mug at the end of the school year. Sometimes, you even get a letter of thanks on a Teacher Appreciation Day.  And then there are the times (maybe) ...

In Education Week's article, "Busywork 101," Jay Solomon writes that the credential programs of today are a "seemingly endless journey through the abstract and the ridiculous."  He also claims that these programs aren't a conspiracy of arbitrary tedium.  I beg ...

Teacher Magazine has an article today about Idaho's progress in developing a standardized teacher evaluation that could be a stepping stone for developing an acceptable pay-for-performance legislature. The article didn't get me thinking so must about the concept of a standardized ...

Look, we all know the statistics.  Many of the hardest-to-teach classes are being taught by the least experienced teachers.  According to Education Week, a study was recently conducted in Philadeliphia evaluating 9th graders, "the make-or-break year for many students on ...

This week I’m in Wickenburg, Arizona, a small western town I’ve been going to for quite some time with my family, and it got me thinking about an artifact I picked up a few years back at an estate sale ...

In response to a recent Washington Post article: Obviously nobody has a problem with tackling the obesity problem in this country in any way we can. I remember the time when everyday for 10 months straight students would come up to ...