I stumbled across a great column by Jay Mathews today in the Washington Post regarding teaching writing in our schools. or rather, how badly our schools are at teaching writing. Mathews says, With a few exceptions, our schools are bad at teaching writing. Students are not asked to do much of it, mostly because reading [...]

My son, who is in eighth grade, will be entering high school next year. He and I have been touring public and private schools, an experience that is, at best, schizophrenic. One day, we’ll be walking through the hallways of a run-down public high school that looks like East Berlin, circa 1972; the next, we’re [...]