Op Ed Articles
The Sunday Paper
- Immigrant Students Need Assimilation, Not Accommodation – On the defects of culturally adjusted education (1/27/2008) [final weekly column]
- Evolutionism and Creationism: Only One Is Science – On clarifying the terms in the debate, especially with regard to science textbooks (1/20/2008)
- Add It Up – On the inadequacy of mathematics teachers in the U.S. (1/13/2008)
- New Study: Money Makes the Grade – On the relationship between socio-economic status and educational achievement (1/6/2007)
- Smell That? – On the relationship between politics and religion (12/30/2007)
- If You Can Read This ... – On the decline in reading ability and reading in the United States (12/23/2007)
- Christmas Through Non-Christian Eyes – On our national tradition of religious neutrality and its desirability (12/16/2007)
- We Need a New Test – On the importance of nationally controlled and rigorous standards and assessment (12/9/2007)
- Following Maryland’s Frightful Footsteps – On watering down education standards to evade accountability (12/2/2007)
- “Remedial” Is the Rule-On the failure of our schools to prepare students for college or the workplace (11/25/2007)
- The Rain Man Cometh-On Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and prayer: a modest proposal (11/18/2007)
- The Proficiency Illusion-On the deceptiveness of reports of student accomplishment under NCLB (11/11/2007)
- Fiat lux! We need Latin!-On the need to restore a Latin requirement to our schools (11/4/2007)
- How Our “Childrens” Learn-On President Bush’s incompetence and the No Child Left Behind Act debate (10/28/2007)
- Not-So-Super Supers – On the incompetence of school superintendents (10/21/2007)
- Judgmental Attitudes on Intelligence – On what we know, and what we do not know, about human intelligence (10/14/2007)
- How Gov. Perdue spins the SAT – On the hypocrisy of elected political leaders in evaluating test results (10/7/2007)
- Displaying the Ten Commandments – On church and state and on Biblical ignorance (9/30/2007)
- Cheating: How The Rich Get Ahead – On untimed SAT tests and the poisonous culture of self-esteem (9/23/2007)
- Teachers Unions Not to Blame – On the proper role and usefulness of teachers unions (9/16/2007)
- A Certified Sham – On the myth and reality of teacher certification (9/9/2007)
- Textbooks of Torture – On the inadequacies of our textbooks and how to remedy their deficiencies (9/2/2007)
- Leaving Behind No Child Left Behind – On the failings of the No Child Left Behind Act (8/26/2007)
- Up to whose Standards? – On the emptiness of state education standards (8/19/2007)
- No Kidding – On changed views of childhood since the Industrial Revolution (8/12/2007)
- Justice and Race – On the Supreme Court’s decision on ethnic quotas, on race,with a historical survey (8/5/2007)
- Yes, They Can – On elementary education (7/29/2007)
- Beyond Crepes and Victims – Critique of proposed graduation requirements, part II (7/22/2007)
- Georgia’s School Requirements – Critique of proposed graduation requirements, part I (7/15/2007)
- Whatever Happened to the Dept. of Education? – Against Spellings and for national control of education (7/8/2007)
- A Canker Upon Us – On the incompetence and venality of the Bush regime (7/1/2007)
- Grade Inflation (6/24/2007)
- Get Sorbonnized – On the proposed reforms to the French university system and what we can learn from that (6/17/2007)
- Only in America – On the promise of American democracy and education (6/10/2007)
- Not Really College Prep – On the inadequacy of American high schools (6/3/2007)
- Meaningless Graduations – On the Bush-Spellings legacy in education: a sham (5/27/2007)
- Laptops Will Not Solve the Problem – On technology and education (5/20/2007)
- Dumbfounded – On Pres. Bush and Iraq, anti-Bush trilogy, part III (5/13/2007)
- Dual Language Education Doesn’t Work (5/6/2007)
- Patching the School Roof – On deficiencies in pending Georgia state education legislation (4/29/2007)
- Hip-Hop’s Insidious Infection – On Don Imus, racism, and the media (4/22/2008)
- The Answer Is Out There – On the romance of space travel (4/15/2007)
- Butchering the Language – On the decline in public discourse (4/8/2007)
- The Graduation Coach Scam – On ill-conceived legislative proposals to improve the high school graduation rate (4/1/2007)
- What Do Teachers Teach? – On the deficiencies of college departments of education (3/25/2007)
- Whether Pigs Have Wings – On the war in Iraq: anti-Bush trilogy, part II (3/18/2007)
- The Long and Short of the School Year – On the need to return to the older school year calendar (3/11/2007)
- Not Under God – On the impropriety of “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance (3/4/2007)
- Bush’s GOP: The Slithy Toves and Other Tales – On the incompetence of President Bush’s governance: anti-Bush trilogy, part I (2/25/2007)
- Television and Society – On violence in western literature and in defense of television (2/18/2007)
- Every Child Left Behind – On leaving NCLB behind (2/11/2007)
- What Should Schools Do? – On the importance of our schools (2/4/2007)
- More Band-Aids from Perdue & Co. – On the ineptness of political leaders when they address education (1/28/2007)
- U.S. Education From Bad to_Worse – On the decline of American education (1/21/2007)
- Homosexuality and Religion – On ignorance of scripture and the Biblical understanding of homosexuality (1/14/2007)
- English: Our Official Language – On the desirability of having a national language (1/7/2007)
- Cobb County’s Stickers Are Gone, But the Controversy Remains – On evolution and creationism (12/31/2006)
- Creativity at the Cost of Literacy – On the flaws in our notion of creativity
- Eradicating Sexism (12/17/2006)
- Blame the Name Game – On the misuse of the terms “liberal” and “conservative” (12/10/2006)
- Gypped: The Overpriced Tragedy of Atlanta’s Schools – On mismanagement of our schools (12/3/2006)
- Six Lies About Georgia’s Schools – On the destructive beliefs that poison our schools (11/26/2006) [first weekly column]
- Chasing Harry Potter – On censorship (10/15/2006)
- Take the Good with the Bad – On technology (9/24/2006)
- Ameliorating the Effects of Our Humanity – On legislating human sexuality (9/17/2006)
- The Truth Will Set the Press Free – On the need for freedom of the press (8/27/2006)
- A Matter of Viability – On embryonic stem cell research (8/13/2006)
- Sheehan’s Infallibility Was Conferred By the Right – In defense of Cindy Sheehan’s dignity (7/30/2006)
- Voting Is for Everyone – On the importance of voting (7/9/2006)
- Unconscionably Low Standards – On the need for school reform (6/25/2006)
- Racism Is a Southern Thing – On the hidden racism in Atlanta (6/11/2006)
- Students Need Clear Requirements – On deficiencies in state education standards (5/14/2006)
