The personal blog of Gary S. Stager, Ph.D.
As Arne Duncan and other unthinking vertebrates get aroused by the notion of common core standards, the rest of us should look at how stoobid …
Super Early-bird Registration ends December 11th! Constructing Modern Knowledge is thrilled to announce that best-selling author and history teacher, Dr. James Loewen, will be a …
On September 3, 2008 I published this article, First We Kill the Teacher Unions, in the Huffington Post. The article reported on some evidence that …
Champions of public education, teachers and students lost an important ally recently when Gerald Bracey passed away unexpectedly. I wrote about the loss of Dr. …
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 …