In the spring of 1973, I was a fifth-grader at the then quite new Sierra Elementary School. Part of the science curriculum was something...

It’s been a while since I wrote a real blog post. Not a short piece for campaigning, but the kind I used to write before the internet ate...

From The New York Times: "Put Down Your No. 2 Pencils. Forever." As colleges rely less and less upon standardized testing, acknowledging...

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Teaching isn’t all stories of hardship, and the beauty of Facebook is kids often stay in touch. I have stories that fed my soul for years...

I had an eleventh-grader, let’s call her Steph, whose mother worked two jobs. Every night, the mom left right after dinner, and Steph was...