We’ve heard a lot lately about the need to improve our ethical behavior, especially in our schools and in our workplaces. But how do we do this? Can good ethical behavior be taught and learned? I don’t believe it is possible to learn good ethical behavior; instead, it must be…
Will grade inflation do us in?
In my last post, I mentioned dropping out of college and being ill-prepared and requiring remedial coursework as problems in Higher Education. But, an equally large problem is grade inflation. There has been significantly higher grades given out over the last 3 decades as in the past. Higher grades are…
What I Learned from Two Years of Home-Schooling
I’ll probably tell people that the best two days of my life were the day I started homeschooling and the day I stopped homeschooling. Not because I didn’t enjoy the experience. It was just really really hard, and in different ways than I would have thought. My reasons for homeschooling…