Notes from the Ironbound

Teacher appreciation week is drawing to a close, which got me thinking about how the people currently attacking education are in the minorit...

I hadn't posted last week's Substack post here because I wrote right before leaving town to visit a friend and didn't have the ...

The beginning of this school year held out the promise of being "normal," that ineffable thing so many of us have been craving (ri...

In April of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic's shutdown phase, a student at my school asked if I would read some Nietzsche with him, s...

Today was my first day back in a non-hybrid, full classroom since March of 2020. By the end of the day I felt like I had run a teaching mara...

I start back at school tomorrow. It's not the first day of classes, but the ever-metastasizing gauntlet of meetings and trainings that e...

This past week I got new marching orders. From now until the end of the school year I am going to be teaching face to face in the classroom ...

The education workplace feels more and more like Gosford Park COVID has been a test of American society, one that we have completely failed....

High school debate's worst case scenario Friday was my last day of regular classes for the school year. It feels good to get across...

24 years later this clip from Lone Star is stil relevant There's an excellent Times piece making the rounds where they compare hi...

Time to dispense some advice to myself I am an educator, which means that I do not measure the passage of time by the calendar year, bu...

Yesterday was the last day of school, a day that feels very different as a teacher. When I was a child it was the king of all holidays, ...

Today brought an article in the Times about the educational tactics used in Success Academy charter schools.  Here's a brief glimpse: ...

I've written before about my decision to leave academia and become an independent school teacher.  In the past I've written about ho...

Former restaurant critic Frank Bruni used his platform as a New York Times columnist today t o attack teacher tenure . The whole thing was...

"Police For America"Seeks To Use Elite Graduates To Patrol Underserved Communities AP)  Backed by money contributed from the Gat...

If you look over at the right-hand column of this blog, you'll notice that my most popular post is an analysis of buzzwords and jargon u...

Back when I was still an academic, my wife and I noticed that administrators at all levels of education tended to fall back on a ready reser...