Archive - Cafeteria Duty

Playground Confidential

What do parents mean when they say a school is "good?"

Mar 14

February 2025

Another Stupid School Board Story

A recent Wall Street Journal story about a local school board misses the point

Feb 26

January 2025

Well, Actually + Told You So

A WSJ article about math gender gaps panders and misleads

Jan 12

November 2024

Teaching books kind of sucks

Nov 17, 2024

February 2024

A Reconsideration of Snow Days

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Feb 15, 2024

November 2023

Or, How to Teach Boys, And How Not To.

Nov 15, 2023

May 2023

Editors: Publish School Shooting Photos

It's been 25 years since Columbine. Nothing has changed and the crisis is worsening. You alone can change the conversation.

May 8, 2023

February 2023

Robots Do it Better?

ChatGPT is a distraction. Teaching writing the old-fashioned way will save America from itself.

Feb 21, 2023

January 2023

Girls’ success in education over the past 50 years has not come at the expense of boys

Jan 12, 2023

School Is Boring Again, Hallelujah

The change we were promised never came.

Jan 10, 2023

September 2022

Public Schools Won't Save Us

Panic about declining enrollments miss the point of school

Sep 26, 2022

March 2022

Instagram is a Cigarette

"The Unbearable Bleakness of American Schooling" is wrong about what's wrong

Mar 14, 2022

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