The Onion doesn’t hit many home runs these days, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped looking at it every, freakin’, day. Their latest “column” can’t help but remind Albuquerque Public Schools employees that  “APS Principal Shuffle Day” is almost upon us.   It’s the annual May ritual in which darts and dartboards are evoked as if… Read More The Onion As Shuffling Soothsayer

I teach what is now called “English Language Arts,” a term that pretty much tells you everything needed to understand the K-12 teaching community and its inability to articulate succinctly and well. But I digress inarticulately. Speaking of succinct, let’s try to be so this morning. Here are the 8th Grade “English Language Arts” Common… Read More When in Dysfunctional Doubt…

In broadcasting, TV/Radio delays programming for seven seconds or so when the show might get to doing some cussin’ or some such.  Public policy, along with the legal system, provides its own delay, one that wittingly or unwittingly, depending on one’s point of view, allows time for the politicians to get out of the mess… Read More Edu-Corruption and the Seven Second Delay

Tomorrow night, my little nub of the K-12 educational universe is having “Pride Night.”  It’s quite the traditional at my school.  When I first got there in 2004, I spent the first two or three years thinking “Pride Night” was a pretty darn impressive showcase for our LGBT community.  I really did.  How foolish of… Read More Pride Night, 2014

A few weeks ago my students, me and a few hundred thousand of our closest Pearson drone friends nationwide conducted the “PARCC Online Field Test” to help norm Pearson’s testing and figure out whether the K-12 Internets would blowed up.  It was an unseemly experience. But nowhere near as unseemly as seeing this linked page… Read More Pearson = Face Tattoos of K-12 Education