Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

Europe's economy contracts at rates not seen since 1930s

I haven't posted much about my own situation, but for about a year now I haven't been happy where I teach. In the last couple month...

It's bad enough that our state Superduperintendent of Public Instruction has said that blacks and Hispanics don't do well in school ...

I'm not too happy in my current work environment. Perhaps I should consider trying my hand at something else. Mathematician looks good...

What's not to like ? At the heart of Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's vision for transforming D.C. schools is a dramatic overhaul of it...

Those of you who gladly give up your liberty to the government should pay attention to what's happening to those who have already done s...

Click on my illegal fees label to see the posts I've written about the illegal fees we charge in our schools. I don't make such cla...

Word out on TeacherNet is that students at our school are endeavoring to surreptitiously record teachers saying or doing something that, whe...

This came to me in an email today, and I can't help but post it. A dedicated Teamsters union worker was attending a convention in Las Ve...

Last night I attended the Eagle Court for a former student of mine. He's the 5th student who's invited me to the ceremony at which ...

This week's is posted over at RightWingNation (a daily read for me) and includes my post about California's upcoming budget cuts.

Yes, it's true. But this new power isn't one of George Bush's attacks on the Constitution, on American civil liberties, on human...

Nowhere . Thanks to a rapid rebound in recent months, global sea ice levels now equal those seen 29 years ago, when the year 1979 also drew ...

How many recounts were we going to suffer through in Florida in 2000 before the US and Florida Supreme Courts put an end to them, halting De...

If you liked the post about Oregon's consideration of "mileage taxes" instead of "gas taxes", in part because peopl...

It's stories like this that make me wonder about the wisdom of having local school boards. Of course, the same thing could happen on a...

Or is everything the fault of President Bush ? And was that about the worse article ever , devoid of even a shred of cause/effect, logic, or...

I wonder if anyone in positions of authority will listen to her. I wonder if she'll listen to herself : Second, as multiple studies hav...

Don't you love how arrogant the Europeans are, how hypocritical the press ? The European Union's new figurehead believes that climat...

I ask this simple question: why, in a logical world, would employers be responsible for employee health insurance? Employers are not respo...