Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager of the Detroit Public Schools, just announced that he plans to shut down 70 of the city’s 142 remaining public schools in oder to close the much-talked-about $327 million budget gap. This move, he acknowledges, will bring high school class sizes to approximately 60. I’d like to write a […]
It’s being reported that a few days ago, Senator Jim DeMint, as he addressed a church group in South Carolina, stated that gay men and sexually-active, unmarried women should not be allowed to teach our children. Fortunately for DeMint, though, it looks as though there may be a cost-effective alternative to those all-to-common Social Studies […]
I wasn’t aware, until reading this article in Newsweek just now, that we had an accepted scientific way in which to evaluate and measure creativity. I also didn’t know that, since the 1990’s, the creativity scores of American students have been steadily inching downward. I’m not surprised, of course, given the trend in education toward […]
