Politics and its Discontents

  “If you’re not straight, white, and conservative, it doesn’t feel safe” - Raineesha Day, California teacher. Having had a career as a tea...

 ... you generally know where they are coming from. "We must protect our children from sexual grooming and pedophilia. The sexualizatio...

Education. Well, it's part of the answer anyway. And the question? How does society mount a serious effort to combat racism in its many ...

I am a member of an increasingly endangered and probably peculiarly-regarded minority. I do not have a smartphone. While I am an avid user...

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a staunch advocate of critical thinking , to me a foundation for any kind of meaningful l...

The older I get, the more I realize that there are no simple solutions to problems, be it world hunger, war and conflict, climate change, ...

Were it not for the telltale insignia on the bottom-right of the screen, it might be hard to tell. High School Student, Teacher Applying F...

It seems to me that any school should feel very lucky to have a teacher of Kristen Ostendorf's character and courage. Totino-Grace Catho...

George Carlin left us far too soon. Watch as he offers his trenchant views on what the corporate agenda wants and demands from us. WAR...

The following is one of several pieces I wrote on my Blackberry Playbook while on a recent holiday in Cuba. Because Internet access and...

Despite the fact that it was fraught with a marking load I would not wish on anyone, my career as an English teacher offered many satis...

The other day I wrote a post commenting on an article by Doug Mann, a University of Western Ontario professor who calls into question the ...

In the latter part of my teaching career, I had the feeling that those in charge of education, especially on the local level, were suff...

Those who see issues in simplistic and absolutist terms will not care to even acknowledge the existence of this letter from a Star reader. ...

I rarely write directly about education these days, now that I am several years into retirement and believe that dwelling upon the past c...

As a retired teacher who spent 30 years in the classroom, I long ago recognized how crucial the development of critical-thinking skills...

After I retired from teaching, my first blog was devoted to matters of education, including the institutional politics that frequently...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on education , lamenting the fact that like just about everything else, it has become a commodity, measured ...