For more than two years now, a friend and I have been day-dreaming about starting a school.  Both of us are short on school-starting credentials, however.  My friend, Chris Espinosa (known to many Texas students as “Uncle Chris,“)  is not even a certified teacher, and, while I do at least have that much formal qualification,  [...]

This article is about my nightmarish experience dealing with the main problem in American public schools: teachers simply do not have time to do their jobs properly.

This plan for a freshman-level college writing course can be adapted for almost any grade level. Its core component is something that schools need to do more: students must interact with “real” people to write articles that could very well end up published. Too much writing in school today is done solely for the eyes of a teacher.

This paper discusses an important, but little recognized, problem in American schools: media literacy is not very prevalent. Results of this paper’s survey should be, at least somewhat, alarming.