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I returned home from my trip to Mexico just a week before school started, having heard that San Francisco Unified School District really did...

A funny, scary 'education' conversation , posted by Valerie Strauss, at WaPo.

Dear Readers, I have made it much easier to post responses and comments. Simply scroll down to the end of a post, click the comments link, a...

Check out, " The Myth of the Bad Teacher ," By Adam Bessie, in Truth Out. This op ed discusses how teachers have become the latest...

When people hear I’m high school teacher they often respond, “Wow, that must be tough!” and it is, but not for the reasons one might think...

Here is a pretty good critique of the infomercial, Waiting for Superman .

According to anti-teacher pundits and demagogues, teachers unions are bad for students because collective bargaining agreements protect bad ...

This was sent to me by our CTA state representative: CalSTRS has approximately 850,000 members. 71% of the CalSTRS members are women. 2009 d...

Another disturbing trend I discovered during my first year of teaching was that most of my classes had more students earning Ds and Fs than ...

Most teachers are not bad, but the constant harping about bad teachers has created a mass hysteria that our schools are filled with incompet...