These are some very granular ideas that came to me this morning over my cup of coffee. I apologize for the vagueness, but I just needed to get this off my chest. Don’t lie. You know these kind of people. Too many teachers go about their business in school as though they can’t think as [...]

Here is an article by Thomas Friedman from the January 10, 2010 New York Times. Its title is It’s All About The Schools, and he discusses the role that the West has in improving school systems in Yemen. Below are some notable excerpts: “They spoke fondly of U.S. schools that were based on merit, taught [...]

If you watch movies that portray kids in high school in the 1980s you can almost guarantee that 3/4 of them are wearing a Varsity jacket. Granted, most of the movies are set up around a backdrop of the football team, but even still most kids are touting their school colors with a big letter on the [...]