BATs v. Free Market Fairy Here we go again. Once more, the hope and promise of a new year is trashed by more divisive legislation prop...

Piles of Education Research My letter to the editor (below) was  published this week in the Janesville Gazette: Janesville School ...

A whopping two blog posts published in 2014.   What gives? Loss. Then grief. There is not much good about grief, Charlie B...

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Wisconsin Teacher Value Not Adding Up My first teaching contract 19 years ago at a Midwest Catholic high school grossed $15,000. My ret...

Yale Commencement, 1962 In annual class discussions about slave history, almost always some student asks, “Why didn’t slaves resist sl...

The history of merit pay in schools is almost as old as public education in America. It has failed many times over and in many forms. M...