Just kidding. At my house, the game will not even be on, and I'm pretty sure life will go on. But here are a few pieces to read today. ...

Remember TeachStrong ? It was launched by the folks at CAP to create some tasty PR about fixing teachers, complete with a not-very-impressi...

This week, reporter Ann Doss Helms of the Charlotte Observer and Lynn Bonner of the News & Observer both offered accounts of a strikin...

Some reading from this week in the edusphere. 13 Years of Dress Rehearsal Chris Thinnes ran a back-to-school parent's night speech b...

North Carolina used to be a fairly progressive state, at least as far as the South goes, but an aggressively conservative legislature has be...

There are days when it seems like the news in education is just the same news, over and over and over again. People believe in the magic o...

The News Observer reports that the number of teachers leaving teaching in North Carolina has grown, and analysts suggest that it's only...

If you glance through the blog, you might conclude I hate charter schools. But like many critics of the current charter wave, I don't ob...

Economist Allison Schrager is quoted over at Yahoo putting forth the idea that tenure is worth cold hard cash . Certainly this is not the ...

One of the most odious policies to emerge from the Reformster swamp is the mandatory retention of all third graders who don't pass the B...