GenEd: All Testing Left Behind
"Testing, not kids, is what's failing across America."
GenEd: “After Porn Wins”: How Delusions of Censorship Are Destroying Our Kids
Your children already KNOW.
GenEd: The Roads Not Taken
Doctor. Lawyer. Pharmacist. Engineer. If all else fails, be a teacher. "It is concerning—if not blatantly outrageous—that an entire community’s sense of accomplishment boils down to these narrow, shallow, and utterly invalid standards of success."
GenEd: “Ladderal” Moves in Education
"We are not going to reform decades of educational malpractice by replacing chalkboards with smartboards, notebooks with chromebooks, instructional texts with instructional video...that is, gimmicks that continue to shove kids up the 'education' ladder. The problem is the ladder itself."
GenEd: A Cocky Teenage Girl and The Weeknd Changed My Life (Part Two: Abel)
If you don’t know who Abel Tesfaye is, then you are culturally illiterate.
GenEd: A Cocky Teenage Girl and The Weeknd Changed My Life (Part One: Lama)
Lama sat me down and made me humble. Then The Weeknd showed me that only losers go to school.
GenEd: Sucking Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree
...until we stop blaming this “new generation” for sucking, we must first admit that sucking doesn’t fall far from the tree. These kids are in fact the report cards of what we’ve put into them.
GenEd: The “Suckiest” Generation
So then, let us talk about this “new generation”. Pause for a moment. Sit back, close your eyes, and answer the following question: “Describe this ‘new generation’ in one or two words”. So what did you come up with? “Spoiled”? “Entitled?” “Disrespectful”? I posed this question to adults (ages 30-65). They replied: “Lost cause.” “Products.” ...
