St. Ignatius Loyola, a Jesuit priest, is credited with saying, “Give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life.” Growing up as a Catholic, I believed  Loyola until I  turned eleven. That was the year I left the Church to listen to the sound of my own drummer. St

In the 1960s, Peter Weiss stunned the world with his play, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. The story depicts a French asylum in 1808 in which the inmates re-enact 

Donald Trump’s Cabinet appointments seem to be based on each candidate’s ineptitude.  Rick Perry, head of the Department of Energy, forgot the department existed in his disastrous bid for president. (Click)  Scott Pruitt,  assigned to lead the Environmental Protection Agenc

Experiments are always happening in public education.  During my brief years in the classroom, I remember fads like team-teaching, schools-within-schools, open classrooms,  magnet schools, alternative schools and, finally, charter schools.  What these variations held in common was