Russ on Reading

I imagine that most of those who read this blog accept climate change and the human impact on climate change as settled science. We'...

When you are a writer, inspiration for your writing can come from all over, suddenly, unpredictably, sometimes even against your will. Int...

About 15 years ago, in my position as a curriculum director for a suburban school district, I worked with teachers, administrators and t...

An article in the Sunday Review section of the New York Times this week caught my eye. It was entitled , The Secret of a Good Robot Teache...

President Donald Trump displays his ignorance of American history in his recent tweets about statues celebrating the Confederacy. It will ...

About the time that the No Child Left Behind legislation went into effect in 2002, then President George W. Bush famously decried the ...

Yesterday, my wife Cindy Mershon and I took our 3 1/2 year-old granddaughter, Schuyler,on a trip to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. ...

July 6, 2017 marks the 3rd annual National Give-a-Kid-a-Book Day. This day of book giving was initiated on this blog in 2015 as a way to g...

I was pleased when my recent post, School Choice: An Ugly Idea , attracted a Twitter response from choice advocate, Peter Cunningham. Cun...

Inspired by Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, and her school choice agenda, Secretary of Defense James "Mad Dog" Mattis has d...

An ugly idea left unchallenged begins to turn the color of normal. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Some Choices Are Just Ugly The quote ...

Today I turned 70 years old. I have no idea how this happened. I was going along, struggling to do the best I could and then suddenly I wo...

Two studies on building a better pre-school caught my eye this week. O n the front page of the Wednesday, May 31, 2017 New York Times , ed...

Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope  of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz I read of the passing of chi...