Dan Ross

It's that time of year again, those two weeks in May during which high school students around the nation are sitting their Advanced Placement exams. And this year we mark the 30th anniversary of the most celebrated AP class of all time: in 1982 a triumphant 14 of Jaime Escalante's...

Every so often, a book comes along that reminds us that kids still love to read. Some are about wizards, others about vampires. And a few are even about post-apocalyptic civilizations infatuated with watching their youth murder each other in an annual televised national ritual.

Of course this last premise...

'Tis the end of the season in which the lines between church and state in public education are at their most merrily blurred. This past week, in schools across the country, students and teachers are returning to hallways that, over winter break, have fought back against the Christmahanukwanzaa decorations that...

When I stepped out into the crispness of the first 40 degree morning of the season last week, I immediately thought of Tom Hanks in You've Got Mail: "Don't you love... the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened...

Not tho' the soldier knew

Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die...

-Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

It's no longer quiet on the education front. As reformers...

One letter separates democracy from mediocracy: I. Our greatest leaders remind us of this from time to time. They have phrased this notion simply and eloquently: "Ask not what your country can do for you," "Yes we can," "Let us strive on to finish the work that we are in."...

You're a teacher and you get into a cab in America. There are two possibilities. The first, your driver is a local. He starts the small talk: "What do you do for a living?" You say you're a teacher. He starts gushing: "God bless you! You must have the patience...