Right on the Left Coast: Views From a Conservative Teacher

Yesterday I wrote about the drop in both NAEP and ACT scores, and I dinged teachers for inflating student grades and GPA's while objecti...

While GPA's go up, performance goes down : The nation’s high school students continue to struggle in the subject areas that are deemed...

So many times on this blog I've blasted schools and districts for what is, IMNSHO, inappropriate disciplinary action against students.  ...

A small 1st Amendment win today: The University of Michigan settled a free speech lawsuit filed by First Amendment watchdog Speech First....

Universities are so involved with government, and many of them are run by governments.  How can tuition possibly be rising so fast , lefties...

After the (Washington Post) Empire struck back, Lord Vader had a change of heart (and hopefully will throw the Emperor down a deep shaft): ...

Joanne has a post about a school district that is using "virtual teachers" via video conference, with the classroom supervised by...

Another study about so-called implicit bias bites the dust : One of the best-known scientific studies to posit that implicit bias—the ide...

Does anyone really believe this , or do they say such things only for attention? Ball State University recently hosted a presentation to ...

Only someone in higher education would need a study to convince themselves of this truth : Students of color are suspended at disproportio...

Seattle's schools are looking at infusing anti-white racism into their math curriculum .  Doing so doesn't make any sense, and neith...

Family issues. *sigh* I'm going to take a few days off blogging. Please check back this upcoming weekend.

Electricity delivery in much of Northern California will have third-world-reliability for the foreseeable future: The CEO of Pacific Gas ...

This video from BBC is very elucidating.  If you consider the entire life cycle of paper, cotton, and plastic bags, how many times would yo...

Now that I'm older and like (and can afford) a few more amenities, I wouldn't mind this at all: FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Food truc...

This article is as important as Haidt's book The Righteous Mind : What Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’...

If it weren't for double standards, the left (and their press toadies) would have no standards at all: ‘SUCH HYPOCRITES!’: FORMER GOV. ...

Galaxy Quest came out 20 years ago.  I'm not convinced it was the best Star Trek movie ever made , but it was certainly up there!  An...

I was a lieutenant in the army, stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado. I was the executive officer, the 2nd in command, of my Air Defense Arti...