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The most powerful influence on learning is a student’s home life over which teachers have no control. This crucial yet obvious fact…
Frank Breslin
Frank Breslin is a retired high-school teacher in the New Jersey
public school system.
Frons domini plus prodest quam occipitium. A master’s face produces more work than the back of his head (Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 18.…
What if your race had known only tragedy throughout America’s history?What if your people had been enslaved, murdered, persecuted and deniedtheir civil…
The following warning should be affixed atop every computer in America’s schools: Proceed at your own risk. Don’t accept as true what you’re…
Evaluating teachers on their students’ performance is an issue that has elicited much comment over more than a decade. In essence, this…
Did it ever strike you as odd that the foundation on which standardized testing is based is a self-contradiction? Standardized testing embodies…
Teachers are morally conflicted by the utter mindlessness and the coarsening effect of what they are forced to put children through. They cannot even imagine the kind of mentality of an Education Secretary of a modern civilized nation who could inflict such untold damage on a generation of children