Because we are in the midst of summer, I have been trying to keep my posts in a relatively light vein.  However, to give you an idea of what is coming up as we get closer to school opening again, I am listing a series of topics that I hope to explore, in no particular order.   As always, I invite readers’ input.  Is there ...

  I know I promised lighter fare for the summer, but my hometown paper today carried a provocative story originally published on June 22 in the L.A. Times.  Titled “With Iraq play, students act on beliefs,” it details the experiences of a group of students at Wilton High School in Wilton, Connecticut who had been working for two months ...

This post marks a digression from the Student Cheating topic of my last post I read in The Globe and Mail today that the Ontario Provincial Police has been given the task of investigating former RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli over allegations that he tried to impede an investigation into wrongdoing in the administration of the ...

Far too often, the ‘bosses’ have little concept of the challenges facing teachers, either because they have spent so little time in the classroom themselves or, after their ‘ascent’ (some would say ‘escape’) from the classroom, forget all too quickly what it means to be a teacher.  For example, many years ago, when I started my job in ...

I should tell you that for most of my life, I have had a somewhat jaundiced view of authority.  To me, the respect accorded to it has to be earned, not demanded.  Let me succinctly say that in my education career, both as a student and a teacher, there was much authority for which I had little respect.  Having been educated in the ...