I was interviewed last summer while attending the national conference of the League of the South in Abbeville, South Carolina. Had forgotten about it, until a couple of days ago.  Here it is.   From Solitude, David O Jones   ...Read More...

The Associated Press has reported that the 11th u.s. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta has blocked a portion of Alabama's strick immigration law. The Court decreed that Alabama state schools cannot ask for verification of citizenship status of students wishing to use their free services.  ...Read More...

The Nashville Tennessean today reports that “New evaluations run off Tennessee teachers.” The problem as reported?  Too many evaluations of teachers cause the teachers to be more focused on evaluations rather than teaching students. The real problem?  The statist educational ...Read More...

Most who read this blog are familiar with the fact that I support and promote home education.  Besides the obvious positive advantage for familial relationships, it is a one-on-one style of education which gives the greatest opportunity for learning. Another unrelated aspect of home education ...Read More...

What happens when a school district pays its faculty over three times the median income ($22,000) of the community? Arrogance! Central Falls High School in Rhode Island has an abysmal graduation rate of 48 percent. At midyear of this academic year, 50 percent of all the students are failing all of ...Read More...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last Friday (22 Jan) that for the first time in the history of the United States economy, government workers make up the majority of union members. Local, state and government workers now represent 51.5 percent of all union members. It seems that the poor ...Read More...

Why do so many private schools, church-related schools, and homeschools succeed while public schools fail? Their motivation. By motivation, I don’t mean any sense of “rah-rah” excitement, but rather the internal drive which causes the teacher to teach and the student to study. The ...Read More...

The Nashville Tennessean reports, “Gov. Phil Bredesen will call a special legislative session Jan. 12 to make sweeping changes to education law in hopes the state will win a bid for millions in federal grant money. Bredesen wants state law to require teachers be evaluated on how well their students ...Read More...