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April 2026

April 05, 2026

Are 28% of Americans truly functionally illiterate?

That's the quickie headline for a long read-through of the 2023 PIAAC report. This study,...

August 2023

August 26, 2023

What happens to the rest of us, when kids fail to learn?

Here's a collection of recent reports on students and young adults in schools and the...

December 2020

December 14, 2020

Let’s talk about ‘Dr.’ Biden

So there was a dust-up over the weekend about a Wall Street Journal opinion piece...

August 2020

August 03, 2020

In which, apparently, the country has completely lost its mind, history-teaching edition

In the news last night: "Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Abolish History Classes." Here...

April 2020

April 09, 2020

Will The Pandemic School Closures Cause An Education Re-Think?

Schools are closed. Depending on what part of the country you're in, they're closed 'til...

January 2020

January 23, 2020

What do Americans know about the Holocaust? Some observations

Yesterday Pew, or specifically the Religion and Public Life arm of the Pew Research Center,...

October 2019

October 09, 2019

“Math Ethnic Studies”? No, no, no.

An article I previewed yesterday . . . You've likely seen this reported elsewhere by...

January 2018

January 22, 2018

Girls rule, boys drool – again?

Here's a report from the Daily Mail: "Oxford University extends time for maths and computer...

September 2017

September 10, 2017

From the library: Boys Adrift, by Leonard Sax

Subtitled The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men....

March 2017

March 17, 2017

Education is not a (positive) human right

Perhaps you remember this from history class in school: in the system of slavery as...

September 2016

September 28, 2016

Boys and Math and The Math Myth

The Math Myth, in italics, that is: the title of a new book by Andrew...

May 2016

May 06, 2016

When does parenting end and schooling begin?

Here's an item out of Slate, linking to an article in the Washington Post (it's...

May 03, 2016

The Gap Year? Not new, just repackaged.

The Gap Year, the break from formal education between high school and college which is...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Update on Illinois: Thank God I don’t live in Palatine!

where the Elementary School District 15 School Board has, as far as I, or pretty...

April 06, 2016

From the library: The Battle for Room 314, by Ed Boland

The subtitle: My Year of HOPE and DESPAIR in a NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL...

February 2016

February 03, 2016

A time for choosing, computer science education

Everyone's jumping into it: the addition of computer science/computer programming/"coding" education into the curriculum. Suburban...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

From the library: The Smartest Kids in the World, and how they got that way, by Amanda Ripley

Yeah, I’d been meaning to read this one for a while, and now I’ve got...

January 2015

January 04, 2015

Parking a link: on educational-attainment inequality between the rich and middle-class

From the NYT, courtesy a facebook-friend share, "No Rich Child Left Behind."If scientists discovered a...

November 2014

November 11, 2014

Parking a link: an odd article on teacher quality

Ann Althouse linked this morning to an article in the New York Times on Mormon...

October 2014

October 28, 2014

Two schools in one! (not in a good way)

Here in Illinois, school districts don't necessarily follow city limits. The high school district (because...

October 24, 2014

Can we just break the AP monopoly?

The National Review has been reporting on the controversial changes to the AP US History...

October 08, 2014

Should Spanish be America’s standard first-foreign-language?

In most of the world, students start learning English early. In Germany, English class starts...

September 2014

September 07, 2014

In which I begin to learn that high school has changed – not always for the better

I'd mentioned periodically that my oldest son has started high school, though I can't remember...

September 02, 2014

Back from Michigan, part 3: Schools of Choice and Charter Schools

So while at my folks' last weekend (is it a regionalism of some kind to...