Skeptophilia

Over the last few days in my Critical Thinking class we've been critiquing the educational system.  After all, who better to ask than a ...

It's the last week of June, and I just wrapped up another school year.  My 29th overall, which still seems kind of impossible to me unti...

New from the "Merciful Heavens, Please Tell Me We're Not Fighting This Nonsense Again" department, officials at the New York S...

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

I had a conversation with a student yesterday that illustrated all that is wrong-headed about public education. Our school is fortunate en...

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...

One of the beautiful things about science is that it self-corrects. If the data don't support the prevailing theory, you double-check ...

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

I begin the unit on ethics in my Critical Thinking class today.  I always look forward to this; it seems to me to be the heart of the curric...

Let me just say at the outset that I'm a law-abiding sort.  With the exception of getting pulled over twice for driving too fast, I'...

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

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am no apologist for the Common Core.  I've seen its implementation in my own school distri...

Sometimes writing this blog seems like whispering into a windstorm. There are so many loopy ideas out there that attacking them is like ta...