How it transpired is something that a LOT of people have thought I'm making up.  But it really happened. I was on my first day of substi...

For now, I'm being a very active substitute teacher.  Which, well... we'll see what happens from there.  People have been telling me...

So for like the third or fourth time in my life I am entering the field of education. I promise that I won't read "The Call of Cthu...

Don't you wish YOU had a teacher like Ethan Schoonover when you were in middle school?  This is the kind of innovation and creativity t...

Photo: Gerry Broome, AP Apparently following the recent examples of others throughout the country, today thousands of teachers from acr...

Catherine Rose and her daughter Alexis It is an honor and a privilege to be able to say that I have been able to count Catherine Rose a...

I have had an idea, which may or may not address a myriad of problems affecting these United States... We should begin letting all natural...

At last night's monthly work meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education , the proposal was put forth that the board should begi...

Genoa-Kingston Middle School student Michael McIntyre is a young supporter of the men and women serving in the armed forces.  So much so ...

From the land Down Under, The Age has the following very strange story of historical revisionism and giant robots . From the article... VCE...

Victoria Soto, teacher of first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School. She had just turned 27. Bright, beautiful, with a love of teachin...

How does one begin to describe Reida Drum ? Nothing I could possibly write would ever come close to encapsulating her feisty nature, her hig...

In the wake of American schoolkids rebelling against the federal government's new school lunch rules , a school district in Florida is c...

WARNING: This might be the most gut-bustingly funny link that I have ever directed this blog's readers to! Kristen and I enjoyed lo...

More than 400,000 schoolchildren in Chicago are without educators today after the teachers union there went on strike. I say "educator...

Alyssa McKinney has learned a valuable lesson courtesy of Lewis-Palmer Middle School in Monument, Colorado (and its primary asshole Superin...

How in Heaven's name did we make it this far without the Food Police? I mean, I remember going to school every day with a lunchbox packe...

Some legislative representatives of neighboring Forsyth County are seeking to re-introduce partisan elections for that county's school b...

This community has lost a respected and admired leader... and a friend to many. The sad word came late last night that Tim Scales , Vice-Cha...

The sad news is coming out of California today that Jaime Escalante has died at the age of 79 , following a battle with cancer. Escalante, ...