Mahmoud v Taylor Pits Parents Against an Elementary LGBTQ+ Book Mandate

  Unlike Shakespeare’s challenged Romeo and Juliet, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, and Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat, once-upon-a-time schooling mainstays, nine elementary grade LGBTQ+ picture books find themselves in the hands of the nine Supreme Court Justices. Brought...

Education Reforms Have Put kids—Especially Boys–at Risk

REMINDER:  George W. Bush’s 2002 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) claimed it “has raised expectations and improved results.” REMINDER: NCLB’s follow-up, the Barack Obama/secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’s July 24, 2009, $4.35 billion Race to the Top and June 2, 2010...

Winter 2025’s Big Comeback

  On the 17th, AP science writer Seth Borenstein put it this way, “The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather. Another polar vortex disruption will stretch Arctic air across the top of the globe…” Indeed, it seems as...