Sad To See
LeVar Burton may be most famous for playing Geordi LaForge on Star Trek, he may have made his mark playing Kunta Kinte in Roots, but he did his best work inspiring children to read books on Reading Rainbow, which after… Continue Reading
Teaching
Viewpoint Censorship
Back in the 1990’s, there was a kid in Minnesota who, quite obnoxiously, put together a cross from broken chair legs, and burned it on the front lawn of an African-American family in St. Paul. He was charged with violating… Continue Reading
Twelve Sunscreen-Free Suggestions For College
Now is the time of year that high school seniors are going to start getting either thin or thick letters back from the college to which they’ve applied. I’ve just had the chance to work with a number of high… Continue Reading
Graduate Law Degree In Stuff You Should Have Learned About Anyway
UCLA Law School, one of the elite law schools, has announced that, owing to the poor state of the economy, so few of its graduates are getting the prestigious, high-paying jobs they came to expect as their entitlements earned by… Continue Reading
Doctor Helen Won’t Let Her Students Turn In To A Bunch Of Little Marxists
Helen Smith, from back in good ol’ Knoxville, gets it exactly right in giving advice to a teacher: …what a teacher chooses to teach can have a hand in how that student thinks about the world. That said, Scott, in… Continue Reading
Anti-Evolution Censorship In Roanoke
A subject near and dear to my heart since my legal career began is student newspapers. Fact of the matter is that student writers and editors, at least at the high school level, have diminished free speech rights with respect… Continue Reading
Something Rotten In The Academy
Chris Hedges issues a scathing indictment of intellectual stagnation in America’s elite universities. According to Hedges, these institutions are not training the leaders, innovators, and bright minds of the future. Rather, they are training legions of competent middle managers. They… Continue Reading
Mock Trial 2009 Begins
Today was our organizational meeting for the mock trial team. I have most of my stars back for their senior years and a crop of eager sophomores. I’ve not read this year’s scenario but I’m acquiring movies for our movie… Continue Reading
Dictionary Revisions
I don’t think that children need to look in a dictionary to know what a blog is. But they might need to do that in order to know what a bishop or a cathedral is. Which is why I think… Continue Reading
Incenting Students
First of all, the verb “incent.” I heard it first last week and I became infatuated. It’s obnoxious, callous, bastardized, and artificial. The English language molded into plastic, the thick, stiff kind of plastic used to print credit cards. It’s… Continue Reading