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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...

When I was in eleventh grade, I took a class called Modern American Literature. To say I was a lackluster English lit student is something o...

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

Today is my last day as a classroom teacher. We still have finals week yet to go, but for all intents and purposes, this is it.  The last ...

'Tis the season for school budget votes, when school districts find out how much they're going to have to cut from the instructional...

It is a frequent source of bafflement to me that so many people don't change what they do when confronted with incontrovertible evidence...

I ran into a piece of research today that left me scratching my head. It was on the topic of teaching and stress, which (as you might imag...

I'm going to ask a question that will undoubtedly be uncomfortable for the 33% of Americans who are still in support of what our current...

A couple of days ago, I was asked an interesting question by a loyal reader of Skeptophilia . If you're comfortable with it, would you...