Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

"I'm never going to need math. I'm going into politics." Boo-yah! If you don't know enough math you can't unders...

Our yearbook at school has asked faculty members for their high school pictures. I knew that I had my freshman through junior pictures but ...

The answer to yesterday's question is: 1957. Today's question is: What is the name of the NASA program to land Americans on the moon...

Who doesn't like stories like this one ? Kirkwood (Mo.) High senior basketball player David "Chubbs" Stillman had a game he wi...

Joanne has the details : Arrested and suspended for one day for wearing a “Nobama” shirt outside a pre-election speech by Michelle Obama in ...

The president of the California Federation of Teachers, a statewide teachers union, calls them a lynch mob . Yes, really.

The answer to yesterday's question is: Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union orbited for 3 days in 1963. Sally Ride first flew on th...

It's one thing to try and fail to do something--say, reform the social security program. It's another to promise something and then...

Today the major Sacramento newspaper had an article about a nearby school district's study regarding homework : How much homework is too...

My natural sleeping rhythms make me a "night person". During summer vacation, absent some reason not to, my usual sleeping time i...

The answer to yesterday's question is: Guion Bluford in 1983, aboard the shuttle program's 8th flight and the shuttle Challenger...

It's almost refreshing in a way--the December 2009 issue of California Educator isn't near as objectionable as most issues are. It...

It's probably easier for a journalist to write a puff piece on my alma mater when he has a relative who will attend there, as is the cas...

The answer to yesterday's question is: 1981. The first shuttle flight, aboard Columbia, was commanded by John Young and piloted by Robe...

Here's the introduction to the " quiz " I took at BeliefNet: Even if YOU don't know what faith you are, Belief-O-Matic TM ...

From today's major Sacramento newspaper : The University of California, Davis, joined seven other California colleges on the Kiplinger...

Here's a fun compilation from EIA, introduced thusly: It takes a special statement to become the EIA Communiqué Quote of the Week...

The answer to yesterday's question is: Michael Collins remained in the command module, Columbia, orbiting the moon while Armstrong and A...

I won't excerpt this piece , I'll just reprint the bio line of the author: Neil Frank, who holds a Ph.D. from Florida State Universi...

The answer to yesterday's question is: A DeLorean DMC-12. Today's question, the first in Space Flight Week, is: Which Apollo 11 crew...