This was going to be a different blog post. In early July and then again in early August, I drove cross country — from SC to CO and then back. This drive crosses for significant stretches Kansas and Missouri. And driving for hours along Interstate 70 in those states is…

In 2022, I still stand by my posts from 2012 ands 2015, included below — that educators still have no political party that supports teachers and universal public education. However, today, I have a caveat that is vital, even urgent. Not voting stopped being an option after 2016 and the…

I had dinner and a few beers with a former student recently. Although he is about two decades younger than me, we share a hometown and grew up in the same neighborhood. …

Peter Greene, former teacher and one of the best public thinkers about education today, found this Tweet “familiar” as a veteran of education reform debates: Greene and I share long careers in education and the mind-numbing experience of rebuking education reform claims and policies over the last few decades…

A core aspect of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in 2001 was the report from the National Reading Panel (NRP) [1]. The NRP report represents a key feature of NCLB that isn’t being interrogated fully during the current “science of reading” (SOR) movement: NCLB mandated that…

A mass shooting in Buffalo. Another racist massacre reminding us of the AME mass shooting in Charleston, SC. Then another mass school shooting of elementary children in Texas. Reminding us of Sandy Hook. Minutes after President Joe Biden addressed the nation about the cancer of mass and gun shootings in…

Just 10 days after the New York Times ran a factually misleading piece on a dyslexia program championed by Mayor Eric Adams, Dana Goldstein amplified the “science of reading” attack on Lucy Calkins and the Units of Study reading program. Margaret Thornton (Princeton) offered on Twitter the essential problem with…