That’s it. I’m done. I am refusing to allow my children to participate in any Common Core-related assessments, surveys, tests – anything, now that testing has begun in earnest in our schools. Here’s why. The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) was founded in 1945. Its educational objectives are to “support the […]

High on the list of subjects about which I am greatly ambivalent, conflicted and inconsistent is the time-honored tradition of allowing the dead to dictate to us what we, the living, can and cannot do. Not to do so, I suppose, would be to abrogate a system of laws, yet I very often find myself […]

Gov. Paul LePage delivered his second inaugural address with a firm and confident voice. Gone was the nervous, “Chief Inspector Dreyfus” laugh that sometimes punctuated his remarks during the campaign. He took credit for his accomplishments; in particular, for paying off the hospital debt that had been accrued by his predecessors, for beginning to reform […]