This site is for teachers, students and parents to share their thoughts on education in America today. We encourage contributors to e-mail essays for formatting and posting. Mike O'Leary
Our essays:
Frustration: That's the Name of the Game by Ned Ide The Quality School Grading Policy by Mike O'Leary Lord of the Flies and Learning Styles by Ned Ide Maybe We Should Throw Out This Baby by Mike O'Leary Review: The Quality School Teacher by William Glasser by Ned Ide The Classroom as a Living Organism by Ned Ide Letting Go by Elizabeth O'Leary Some Reasons Why We Group by John Brogan It's Easy to Teach Writing, Just "Open a Vein." by John Brogan On Mandatory Classes by Isaac Lombard The Paradigm Shift in the Public School by Michael Andrew The Primary Function of Schools by Dave Neps It's Time for the Multiple-Mastery Classroom by Ned Ide The Unbalanced World of Teaching and Coaching by Ned Ide Schooling's Bias Against Free-Writing by Ned Ide Feeding the Content Monster, or "Covering the Curriculum" by Amy Schwartz When students see their peers as sources of wisdom...by Michael O'Leary Balancing Real World Problems with Real World Results by Rick Gordon