Young people today come to school with a different orientation than past generations. Traditional student disciplining approaches are no longer successful for far too many young people. For example, a parent related the following to me after a discussion of how society and youth have changed in recent generations:   The other day, my teenage […]

The purpose of schooling is to teach our children to learn and produce quality work.  In order to accomplish this goal, our schools must re-think the ways in which they view the educational process.  Such changes do not necessarily cost more money (although increased funding for education is important), but rather requires a radical shift […]

Happy New Year to you.. We all tend to shudder with distaste at the expression “New Years Resolutions”. The phrase brings to my mind pulling myself up by my sorely lacking in self-discipline, boot strings and dredging up basically the same old and tired lists of resolutions I make every year. You know the ones: […]