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...

Several years ago as a college student, I was minoring in secondary education.  The intended plan was since I couldn't hack it in comput...

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

A 19-year old's voice-mail rendition of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song caused the entire public school system where he lived ...

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

Please tell me that isn't a soybean that Michelle Obama is extolling the virtues of in that photo. The current First Lady has somehow ...

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...

Dear Ron, Five years ago last week, on the night before the election that included the names of you, me and fourteen other individuals on th...

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...

Don'cha wish we knew this when we were in high school! (Oh who am I kidding? North Carolina's government is so bass-ackwards on ev...

If true, this is worse than George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four . At least in that book the people of Oceania knew that the telescree...

( Not Marcus after slaughter and sectioning, but an incredible simulation) Elementary students in Kent, Great Britain have elected to send ...

Bev Perdue - who for as long as she is Governor of North Carolina will be referred to on this blog as "WORST GOVERNOR EVER!" - is...

That "North Carolina Education Lottery" that we've had for going on three years now? The one that was supposed to do nothing...

Betsy Ramsdale of Wisconsin apparently likes guns. Nothing wrong with that. And she likes them so much that she posted a picture of herse...

Remember the crazy fight that a lot of good folks here in Rockingham County, North Carolina fought in 2007 (at right) against Standard Mode...

Longtime readers know already that I'm very hesitant to hand out endorsements of candidates. Someone running for office has to sincere...

Students at Wilby High School in Waterbury, Connecticut have a chance to clean up: for each Advanced Placement exam that they pass, the scho...

To all the deluded saps still out there (including this guy ) who somehow seriously believe that No Child Left Behind helps education, you...