Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

Liberal hypocrisy knows no bounds : It was just over 60 years ago that the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy were repudiated when he wa...

Maybe that's the "sour grapes" approach to not wanting to put time and effort into improving memory : Neuroscientists have l...

I know teenagers like recording things on their phones.  I know teenagers like having sex.  I know teenagers like pushing limits. Teenager...

From the major Sacramento newspaper : The California Federation of Teachers plans a protest at a CalSTRS board meeting in West Sacramento...

What we have here is a small difference of opinion : The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Wednesday suspended the president of i...

From EIA : “We know we could experience an immediate, short-term loss of membership.” Last year I posted a PowerPoint presentation from t...

Here's the press release for the discussion I attended downtown this afternoon: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 201...

In the early days of this blog I got a lot of spam comments--then I switched from unmoderated to moderated comments.  I still got a lot of s...

One of the teachers at my school recently sent the following post to members of our staff: Whenever a college student asks me, a vetera...

What with all the brouhaha lately about so-called “rape culture” on American university campuses, as well as the increasingly watered-down d...

If this turns out to be true, it's more than a little sick: San Francisco sheriff’s deputies arranged and gambled on battles between...

As this post shows, it's not "drill and kill" but "drill and skill": Britain has imported math teachers from high...

From Instapundit : TALK OF CAMPUS “RAPE CULTURE” IS, BASICALLY, UNSCIENTIFIC HATE SPEECH, AS REUTERS POINTS OUT: Campus rape is a serio...

From Joanne : In 41 cities, charter students learn significantly more than similar students in traditional public schools, according to a ...

Joanne has two consecutive post up on reading: Finland: Girls Read Well But Not Boys , and Boys Are Catching Up In Reading (but presumabl...

A round-up of Iraq topics--including video, so no one can challenge what was really said--is available here .  It's nice to have all tha...

Why?  Because Americans just aren't buying their global warming alarmism: Americans' concern about several major environmental thr...

Would you rather your kid have a teacher of the same skin color, or one that's bright ? Should we select teacher candidates for their ...

The so-called reality-based community has never explained, at least to my satisfaction, the allure of communism, especially given its death ...

Governor Brown said today that Ted Cruz' stance on global warming should be disqualifying for president: Responding to comments made...