In Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen! If one more news personality places the article “an” before the word “historic” or “historical,” I’m going to have an hissy fit. See? Sou...

To graduate or to be graduated? Verbs and verbiage. I love grammar. I don’t always use perfect grammar, but I love it all the same. By way of analogy, I love pizza, but I do not eat it every...

Cinco de Mayo – A uniquely American holiday, courtesy of… México! Outside of areas with large Mexican populations, Cinco de Mayo as a holiday is largely ignored. Allow me to suggest that this perhaps is a...

Gerald Conti shrugged... [Updated August, 2017] Westhill High School , just outside of Syracuse, NY, is one of the top schools in one of the top school districts i...

Teacher resignations: Cries in the dark. Is there anybody listening? "Is there anybody listening? Is there anyone that sees what's going on? Read between the lines, criticize the words they're...

First Gerald Conti, now principled principal Kathleen Knauth calls it quits - John Galt claims another educator Last month, I wrote : Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged in 1957. In it she described an alternate America in which people of integrity in ...

"I was proud to say I was a teacher." Past tense. "Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono A morning mare rides, in the starless shutters of my eyes The spirit of a misplaced chi...

How high schools and colleges think differently about student preparation Paul Riede, education reporter for Syracuse’s Post-Standard , posted something this morning that caught my eye: “High school teachers and ...

As the 4th of July approaches, some controversial thoughts on the Pledge... "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice You can choose from ...