Wow! When you really look, our elite educators have been busy-busy-busy. At first glance, you think these people are clumsy, or misguided, or they have very bad judgment. Then you start to see patterns — for example, everything they’re really excited about is usually a bad idea. So bad it takes a kind of genius [...]

New software lets me create some very useful videos (actually they’re more like animated slideshows). Here are some of the titles you can find on YouTube: Phonics vs. Whole Word The Truth About Robots John Dewey and the Burden of Ideology How To Teach Latin, Etc.   World’s Easiest Test Total is now about 20. [...]

A column I have in several places on the internet starts like this: “Most major American newspapers are scoring a painful trifecta: losing readers, waving goodbye to advertisers, and firing journalists. Why is this happening?” I discuss two causes. The first (in brief) is the papers are too busy pushing their political agenda. The article [...]