What you do is you fake a stomach cramp and when you're bent over moaning and wailing you lick your palms. It's a little childish and stupid, but then, so is high school.

Advice from Ferris Bueller on how to get your parents to let you skip school. I am...

To ensure each student reaches his or her full potential by broadening California's educational vision, policy, and practices to promote innovation, economic development, and creativity.

This is the driving purpose put forth by the National Endowment for the Arts' (NEA) California Education Leaders Institute (ELI) team at a...

A few weeks ago, I had the honor of sitting in on a discussion, hosted by the Writers Guild of America, between First Lady Michelle Obama and the Los Angeles creative community. Along with Dr. Jill Biden, the First Lady...

"We are all either bullies, bullied, or bystanders," says Dr. Richard Gross, American Psychiatric Association's School Health Committee member. I can certainly remember feeling that way as a kid trying to navigate the perilous land of 'Playground.' I'll admit to trying on each of those roles in the brave grade...

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners... but having the same manner for all human souls. In short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Professor Henry Higgins says this to...

This week my kids' public elementary school, a high performing school in a "good" neighborhood, was in lockdown (again) for violent intruders on campus. These were young adults, loitering on a street corner at 2:30 p.m., and evidently on some type of intoxicant. One parent was assaulted, but no children...

In honor of the new year, I wanted to share just a tiny sample of the work produced by thousands of Kindergarten through 5th grade students participating in Los Angeles-based non-profit, P.S. ARTS, programs in 2010. These works celebrate the unique way in which children are looking and thinking about...

Davis Guggenheim's film "Waiting for 'Superman' " is an indictment of the public education system in America. It cuts to the bone, exposing bureaucrats and special interest groups, in the form of teachers' unions, as major impediments to our kids' success in school. The point is brought home by following...