Bulls#@t and the Art of Crap-Detection
Back in the late 1960s, Neil Postman wrote extensively about how educational quality and a healthy democracy were dependent on each citizen having a highly …
The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
Back in the late 1960s, Neil Postman wrote extensively about how educational quality and a healthy democracy were dependent on each citizen having a highly …
I finally got around to making my contribution to the NECC 2009 Keynote Debate available without viewers having to wade through two hours of video. …
I used to refer to Back-to-School Night at my kids’ schools as “The Night of 1,000 Columns,” because of the comical inspiration provided by each …
“Word-of-the-day,” a simple idea with multiple meanings A literate citizen has command of a large and expressive vocabulary. Schools “do vocabulary” presumably in the hopes …
While on a recent flight across the South Pacific, I pondered the challenges facing American education. Somewhere high above Guam it hit me. What we …
Laura Bush Praises Obama, Defends Back-To-School Speech In an interview with CNN, Mrs. Bush, a former school teacher, said, “There’s a place for the president …
Greetings from Australia! Karl Fisch’s latest blog, Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?, and a horrific current event inspired me to mine the Stager …
The good news is that my daughter’s teachers are at last beginning to use computers. The bad news is they are using them to make …
From Curriculum Administrator Magazine — June 2000 Amidst the sadism, angst and mediocrity of middle school, two social studies teachers had an important impact on …
There are many ways to evaluate excellent educational leadership. Here is a true story demonstrating such leadership. A school principal recently led me on a …