To Nicholas Wansley and Brian and Thomas Yarbrough: If my abacus is working properly, this is the 12th year I have dispensed some grandfatherly advice to you in the hopes that something I tell you will be helpful as you step out into a world that looks a lot more complicated than the one I encountered at your age. When I first started this annual correspondence, you were … [Read more...] about January 9, 2011: To My Grandsons: Faster Is Not Necessarily Better
2011 Columns
January 2, 2011: How Can You Evaluate Teachers And Not Evaluate Society?
Oh great. Now, the Obama administration is getting involved in public education in Georgia. That’s all we need. The deft touch of an inept federal government. Outgoing Gov. George E. Perdue (please tell me he has left the building) agreed to participate in the $400 million Obama Race to the Top program. Our new governor, Nathan Deal, has inherited the thing and turned it over … [Read more...] about January 2, 2011: How Can You Evaluate Teachers And Not Evaluate Society?