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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...

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...

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

The National Education Association (NEA) is spending $15 million to get pro-education candidates elected in November, while the Californi...

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 ...

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

Massachusetts teachers in the King Phillip Regional School District, Norfolk County, are protesting a contract dispute with their district o...

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

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...

On August 2, the California Board of Education approved Common Core Standards (CCS), aligning our standards with 33 other states. The vote...