Ron Isaac – In the glory days before Chancellor Klein taught the world a lesson by replacing its chronicles and curriculum with test prep, students were taught classic literature.

Donna Garner – Parents, legislators, school personnel, and the public, you need to be gearing up to take a stand about the type of policies and curriculum school districts should promote to address the bullying issue because the Obama administration has co-opted this issue to drive its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender agenda right straight into every school in America.

Frank Salvato – The overwhelming, message-sending, victory that Republican candidates scored in the 2010 mid-term elections was nothing less than historic.

11.1.10 – Matthew Amaral – On Monday, I usually show up to the high school where I teach dressed like I¹m about to go to a wedding.

11.1.10 – Dr. William L. Coale, Ph.D. – Good and great teachers aren’t protected by seniority…in fact, it’s a total non-issue for them. Moreover, today, when you often have hundreds and sometimes THOUSANDS of applicants for each available teaching position in Michigan, why on earth should we continue a practice that protects the least worthy?

10.28.10 – Michael F. Shaughnessy – Since I fly quite frequently to various places around the world, I am always looking for good reading material. The latest issue of The Concord Review is out, and alas, it is no longer in print form, but can be printed out off the Internet.

10.28.10 – Joe Nathan – “We can clearly answer the question, ‘Is everybody ready for kindergarten’ when we understand that ‘everybody’ does not apply to just children.” That’s one of many wise insights in a new, brief book making a big, important point: We need to be equally concerned about helping students be ready for kindergarten, and helping kindergartens (and schools) be ready for students and their families.

10.27.10 – Neal McCluskey – One of the most regrettable outcomes of government schooling is constant, wrenching conflict as diverse people are forced to fight over the uniform school system they all have to support. Sadly — and in complete opposition to the foundational American value of individual liberty — one of the few ways these conflicts can be resolved is by crushing groups with insufficient political power, keeping them from getting the education they want for their children.

10.23.10 – John Jensen, Ph.D. – Character education programs apparently produce few benefits if any.

10.23.10 – Joe Nathan – The Merriam-Webster Dictionary explains that encourage means “to give support, confidence or hope to (someone).” It’s no surprise that these are challenging times. So what will it take to offer more encouragement to young people?

10.19.10 – Ron Isaac – The phrase "being on the same page" took a brow-raising instructional twist on the editorial page of a recent issue of the community newspaper "Queens Chronicle." Instead of describing a meeting of the minds, the phrase illustrated, in its literal application, inconsistencies in judgment and perhaps subliminal hypocrisy of attitude

10.19.10 – J.R. Wilson – The reform agenda promoted and supported by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan includes STEM schools, longer school days, longer school years, national standards, national assessments, charter schools, merit pay and evaluation of teachers based on student test scores, and school restructuring.

10.18.10 – Among the first organizations that tyrants suppress are labor unions, whether the Stalinists of the 1920s, the Nazis of the 1930s, the Chinese of today, or the anti union crowd that views teacher unions in the same light.

10.17.10 – Ron Isaac – Thanks to the teachers union not minding its own business, as our enemies would restrict and define it, some people may not, after all, have their lives cut short by lethal diseases known to be caused by PCBs, which are found in building materials in around half of our schools.

10.14.10 – DANIEL DISALVO – When Chris Christie became New Jersey's governor in January, he wasted no time in identifying the chief perpetrators of his state's fiscal catastrophe. Facing a nearly $11 billion budget gap — as well as voters fed up with the sky-high taxes imposed on them to finance the state government's profligacy — Christie moved swiftly to take on the unions representing New Jersey's roughly 400,000 public employees.

10.13.10 – Joe Nathan – Call me amazed! We’re going to skip educational controversies today and focus on family fun – the kind that’s available via computer, with guidance and suggestions from teachers.

10.13.10 – Inez Feltscher – President Obama wants to see the U.S. lead the world in the number of college graduates by 2020. But new regulations being proposed by the Department of Education would undermine that goal by presenting more obstacles to students seeking to attend the higher education institutions that work best for them.

10.11.10 – Matthew Amaral – You’ll have to excuse me. I just broke up a fight between two gang members, by myself, without the help of security, so I’m writing this with some adrenaline. I want to keep that going because it is replacing the rage with which I usually write about the gauntlet that is public education. And I don’t like to write in pure anger.

10.7.10 – Will Fitzhugh, The Concord Review – I propose a thought experiment for what it may be worth. What if we change the name of our organization from the National Association of College Admissions Counselors to: The National Association of College Completion Counselors?

10.4.10 – Joe Nathan – It’s extremely rare for a documentary movie about improving schools to be praised and challenged in newspaper stories and columns throughout the country, including intense criticism from Education Minnesota and a Minnesota teacher preparation professor.

10.4.10 – Sonam Shahani – My Cooperating Teacher (CT) pauses as she reads a book to the class. Hearing sirens outside she says, “Something bad is happening in the world today…” Disregarding the thought, she continues reading Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones as the kids giggle at the hare with no hair and the moose that eats mousse.