educationrealist

When people want to mock ed schools and the low IQ of the students within them, they often go straight to the coursework.

“Consistently, for decades, those college students who have majored in education have been among the least qualified of all college students”—Thomas Sowell, 1993 (and thousands of others before and since) Writing about teacher certification procedures sho…

I’ve mentioned that I disagree with Helen Andrews’ Great Feminization treatise, just as I disagreed with her Boomers Fucked the World Up book.

Three widespread cheating rings in nearly 30 years and the stories get dropped almost immediately by the national media.

I originally planned on following up on my group projects assignment within a week, but got distracted by semantics.

While a lot of "group work" is forced, group projects are an essential part of education.

Original publication: 01/02/25 In late October, The Free Press published Abigail Shrier’s1 article Kindergarten Intifada.

(originally published: 12/25/24) I first noticed Abigail Shrier when she made the podcast rounds to discuss her first book.

Originally published on substack: 11/3/2024 A third of teachers like their jobs, and while that’s a little less than the half of Americans who enjoy their work, it’s not so far off that we shouldn’t explore other reasons for this difference.

The last time I taught US History was in spring 2017, and it was the shit.