"Homogenous" is dogwhistle for all-white. Whenever this topic comes up, whites covertly blame America's education lag on minorities. Read more
The picture MUST be shown. Read more
Parents Night is dreadful. Last year I was singled out by a teacher in a room full of judgmental parents because my 3rd grader, for the "art show", drew a picture of a chicken giving a horse a hand-job. Seriously. I have the photo prove it if you provide me with an e-mail to send it. When I got home, I feared… Read more
Worth noting on the standardized testing/educational competition stuff you write about here: Finland, arguably the world's best educational system, explicitly discourages that kind of thinking and focuses on equality instead of competition. Read more
I was at a parent's night at my kid's school a couple of years ago—one of those things where you go to the school at…
As someone who went to journalism school and worked at a TV station behind the scenes for a couple of years, this is the kind of thing that drives me nuts. Sheridan cited a single anonymous source (which, on a big story like this, is a journalistic sin) and got the details of the announcement completely wrong. Had… Read more
Alternate theory: Sheridan decided, based on what he knew, to make an educated guess, thinking that the reward for being right would more than make up for the risk in getting it wrong. Read more
In The Untouchables, Sean Connery's character famously said, "He pulls out a knife, you pull out a gun. That's the Chicago way." By that math, 82 people pulled out knives over the July 4th weekend. Read more
They say journalistic integrity is dead in America these days. If that's the case, then journalistic integrity must have visited Chicago over the July 4th Weekend. Read more
"Send in the Clowns?" More like send in the stretchers. 82 dead, broseph. Read more
That Simmons article was the fucking worst. He should have credited it to The Amazing Kreskin for all the alleged mind-reading that takes place. Read more
If this is the honest version then why is Michael Jordan tipping? Read more
People bitching about weather coverage interrupting television programs is a well-documented phenomenon. Meteorologists even get death threats over it. Read more
Mario Götze found net in the 113th minute to deliver Germany its fourth world cup. Above is the goal as called on…
Journalism's latest man of the match, Lee Jenkins, called this evening from Cleveland, where he's continuing coverage of the LeBron James Coming Home Story that they'd broken together earlier in the day via an open letter. Read more
As it happens, LeBron James's free agency, conducted under seemingly total radio silence, kicked off in earnest…
Shortly after LeBron James announced via Sports Illustrated that he was heading back to Cleveland, Yahoo's Adrian…