I answered a question for myself this week. It was a longstanding, nagging question that cut to the core of what I do as a special ed teacher. I can’t remember exactly how it was phrased, but in my own words it was something like this: Under what...

I’ve heard it a few times from people in educational leadership: we’re building a plane while we’re flying it. Usually, I get the urge to get off when I hear that. It doesn’t strike me as inspirational – unless the goal is to inspire fear… Brian Eno...

The National Journal published a short piece recently and asked that question: How should teacher effectiveness be measured? They start by referring to a recent study on teacher effectiveness measures (or the lack of them): In a report titled “The...

I’m not really an advocate of school choice for the simple reason that in my sparsely populated, physically rugged part of Appalachia it is a somewhat impractical approach to providing students with improved education environments. If little my school...

The Associated Press made news this week by warming up an old (and undated) quote from President Obama: Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas. Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in...