Skeptophilia

When educational budgets are cut -- which they are, every year -- inevitably what is hit the hardest are programs for the arts, music, theat...

I didn't have an easy childhood.  There were a lot of reasons for this, some stemming from my own issues and some completely outside my ...

By now, I'm sure you've all heard that my former home state of Louisiana has passed a law requiring all public school teachers to po...

New from the "I Thought We Already Settled  This" department, we have: the West Virginia State Legislature has passed a bill , and...

Kids these days, ya know what I mean? Wiser heads than mine have commented on the laziness, disrespectfulness, and general dissipation of y...

A couple of days ago, I received an email through my author website that started out, "Are you by any chance the Gordon Bonnet who taug...

New from the "Well, I Coulda Told You That" department, we have: a study out of MIT showing that confident kids do better in mathe...

Back in my teaching days, one of my least favorite things was when I realized that there was a faculty meeting after school. Faculty meeting...

Let me start out with a reality check: despite what the Religious Right and the pseudo-pundits on Fox News  want you to believe, there is no...

A friend of mine has characterized the teaching of science in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college as follows: Element...