Education

The #1970 Club: Language and Learning

The #1970 Club is starting tomorrow (October 14th) and I'm prepared with some reading and re-reading.  1970 offers a rich…

2 months ago

Meaning Loss

In Meaning Loss, Sanje Ratnavale has written a practical and timely contribution to an important debate that all schools should…

3 months ago

The Silence of the Associations

It has been nearly four months since the publication of the Independent Review of gender identity services for children and…

5 months ago

The Affair of the Chocolate Teapot

Midge Hazelbrow, the indomitable co-head of Wayward St. Etheldreda's Academy, took herself for a brisk constitutional down Riverside Drive to…

9 months ago

Best Practices, Reading Wars, and Eruption at Wayward

Before the eruption, it was a typical senior leadership meeting at Wayward. Head of School, Tim Endibel, was talking. On…

10 months ago

Words Matter

When I taught fourth and fifth grade at a school that didn't assign grades, the topic occasionally came up among…

10 months ago

Wings of Wax, Feet of Clay

When Claudine Gay resigned as President of Harvard this week the gloating by some conservative activists and commentators was unappealing…

12 months ago

Personal Update. And Breaking News

My Wittgenstein project has entered a fallow phase but it is merely on furlough for a while and will be…

1 year ago

Guilty as Charged

Long ago, but not so far away, but decades before DEI rebranded itself as Divide, Exclude, and Intrude I too…

1 year ago

Lying to the Young is Wrong

In his day, the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko' was something of an international rock star whose readings could fill sports…

2 years ago