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Are Teachers Underpaid? Let's Find Out Jul. 25, 2014
A teacher in South Dakota with a bachelor's degree and 10 years of experience earns $33,600 per year... Read More
Our Unwillingness to Defend Ourselves Jul. 16, 2014
The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 2012 losses because of perso... Read More
White Privilege May. 28, 2014
What would you think if your 8-year-old came home and told you that "white privilege is something th... Read More
Of Kindergarteners and College Prep May. 01, 2014
A kindergarten in New York has canceled its end-of-the-year kiddie show in order to devote more time... Read More
The Common Core Conundrum Apr. 18, 2014
Common Core State Standards could be the under-the-radar issue of the 2014 campaign. Business leader... Read More
The Fall of Big Labor Feb. 25, 2014
Big Labor took a roundhouse punch on the chin a week or so ago, and the ringside clatter made it sou... Read More
'Disparate Impact' Doctrine Often Hurts Those it's Intended to Help Feb. 14, 2014
Disparate impact. That's a phrase you don't hear much in everyday conversation. But it's the shortha... Read More
Schoolteacher Cheating Feb. 05, 2014
Philadelphia's public school system has joined several other big-city school systems, such as those ... Read More
Perfectionist Wonders What's Wrong With Perfect Jan. 05, 2014
Q: I am a middle school student from Missouri and am researching perfectionism, which is "perfe... Read More
Chuckle Bros
Jan. 04, 2014
Social Security: Who's In and Who's Out Dec. 04, 2013
Every time I write a column about various offsets that impact Social Security benefits payable to fo... Read More
Those ‘At-Risk’ Kids Nov. 20, 2013
Several years ago, Carl Hugebeck was teaching a course in character education in Bastrop, Texas, wit... Read More
The Blob That Ate Children Mar. 18, 2013
Shortly after I did my first TV special on education, "Stupid in America," hundreds of uni... Read More
Security Theater Comes to School Mar. 13, 2013
"Do something." Those were the urgent but rather nonspecific marching orders given to scho... Read More
New Study Offers Room to Negotiate on Valuing Good Teachers Jan. 10, 2012
Good teachers make a difference. That hardly qualifies as news. But combined with a serious statisti... Read More
Oakland Drowning in Social Justice Oct. 31, 2011
Occupy Oakland has scheduled a general strike throughout the California city for Wednesday. What doe... Read More
Share Your Stories, Teachers Sep. 01, 2011
Labor Day always triggers memories of the two most important hourly wage earners in my life: my moth... Read More
Obama and the Teachers Jul. 04, 2011
A problem as big and many-faceted as the problem of the public schools couldn't possibly be the faul... Read More
From Teachers, a Lesson in Character Mar. 15, 2011
It's a question on a lot of parents' minds these days: How do we teach character? New York Times col... Read More
