Should I send my child to school? We never ask this question.
Considering the low pay most citizens receive, it is nearly impossible to get along on just one parent’s income, so the school system is simply the only thing to do with your child while you’re at work. And, anyway, everybody else does it. What’s [...]
No Child Left Behind (NCLB,) an initiative introduced by both Republicans and Democrats, represented by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, has raised a panicked stampede of emotions from educators that is just delightful to see. I remember substitute teaching in the day when teachers used to drag themselves into school, half-zonked from partying the night [...]
I was in my local New York City Public Library today, the Jerome Park branch here, in the Bronx, and I noticed a little boy, maybe 7 or 8 years old, at the computer. As he moved his mouse, a gun barrel shifted around at the base of the screen and some rifle-scope [...]
