Interesting event this morning in Oriental celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first public school bus in the state of North Carolina t...

David Boren, President of the University oF Oklahoma, has a moral compass. He also knows how to take decisive action. Would that more of o...

"One trains for the known, but educates for the unknown...." Thomas Ricks

I recommend everyone concerned with public education to read Jonothan Kozol's review in the New York Times of Diane Ravitch's new bo...

I started school in the first grade (we had no kindergarten) in Greenwood, Mississippi in September, 1943. We had one first grade teacher an...

We had a great weekend attending our grandson's graduation from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michiga...

We're about to hit the road again - back home to Oriental. Graduation ceremonies, in my experience, are seldom inspirational. But here...

Not quiet at all. We've been on the run from morning to night attending various graduation celebrations of our grandson. Turns out, he h...

Tomorrow morning, we are leaving for Ann Arbor, Michigan to attend our youngest grandson's graduation from the Gerald R. Ford School of ...

Following up on my earlier post on the cursive gap and the legislature's drive to require that students memorize multiplication tables, ...

I learned from this morning's News and Observer that both houses of the General Assembly have courageously tackled one of our most urge...

Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth, at least according to an old bit of folk wisdom. I have taken a preliminary look at bills introduced into ...

I took a first crack yesterday at Governor McRory's attack on higher education in North Carolina. Make no mistake - that is what it was....

OK, that isn't exactly what Governor McRory said to a national audience yesterday, but it isn't far off. Gender Studies (one might s...

"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the ...

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. - Pudd'nhead Wilson (Mark Twain) There is talk of reform in the air. Ha...

One of my problems well into my eighth decade is that I have lived for more than a third of the nation's history. For most of that time ...

Sad report today from McClatchy - Weekly Reader is gone from the classroom. I still remember some of the news articles. Most memorable wa...

Good post today by the economist Jared Bernstein. I think it hits several nails on the head, so I take the liberty of quoting it in toto. Ho...

One of my favorite activities in 4th grade English class was diagramming sentences. This seems to be a forgotten art, like cursive writing...