Skeptophilia

That people believe all sorts of weird things without any hard evidence is so obvious as to barely merit saying.  What never fails to astou...

The PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) test scores are coming in, and it ain't pretty. PARCC is ...

In the last few days, I've been prepping for the start of another school year.  My 29th, which boggles my mind a little.  And although I...

Robert Heinlein said, "Never attribute to conspiracy what is adequately explained by stupidity."  I think this is a pretty good ru...

Why is it that the people trying to "fix the education system" seem hell-bent on making it worse? It's a mysterious phenomen...

If you want to get a near-violent response from 98% of current public school students, about 75% of teachers, and unknown (but probably larg...