Editor's note: This article was updated on July 24, 2024. A few years back, I was in my room meeting parents during an open house days before the school year started. A woman walked in, looked up...
When their sons were told they’d have to cut their hair to continue attending the local public school, Jerry and Pat Roy began homeschooling their children. It was 1971, and the Roys, citizens of the...
You know that iconic scene in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the original, not that abominable remake) when the narrator says, “Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart, grew three...
The spin never stops when it comes to education and it goes into overdrive with the close of a decade. Amidst all the hype of a lost decade and the need for humility from education reformers,...
The past decade is the first that I have spent entirely as an educator, and it is incredible to reflect back on how much things have changed over that time. At the federal level, our education system...
