Random Thoughts of an OutLaw Educator

This is a picture of an-all-but empty supply cabinet in a school. Where's the glue, paint, scissors, construction paper in a rainbow o...

“ Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations.  Of all the institutions that purport to do th...

You hold on to the joy you can find. Here's some: Casey, the funniest middle schooler I know. We had an unexpected Library class, o...

"What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education."                                     --H...

When I was student teaching, I had an experience that left me in tears and immoblized for days afterward. It started well enough-- with wha...

Another day, another dismal library to fix. The Manchester Miracle is almost over. The Library was redone by Sam's Club. Truly. I kn...

Last Tuesday night I dragged home, completely exhausted and despairing. I had spent the day sweating in a cement block room painted a peeli...

iTunes U is such an amazing resource that every person and every educator needs to know about it. I'm sure it's well known to many,...

  Recently, amid much chaotic, heart rending anguish, tearing of hair and gnashing of teeth from ex-pats, alumni and current students alik...

Rise Against ItGetsBetterVid This is beautiful-- and a good illustration of the hidden world of the child. We all need to remember what it...

My dream and goal for America is to see the kind of democracy in action everywhere that is being displayed in Wisconsin. It is unfathomable ...

In sad, enraging and all-too common news, the march of stories about the death of support for librarians and school library goes on. In Bal...

Between sessions I've been talking to librarians from across the state and hearing one heart-breaking and enraging tale after the next. ...

There's a gorgeous woman I know who is every inch a former ballerina. Long boned, slender and elegant, this lady looks all together, all...

Catherine Ferguson Academy on the Rachel Maddow Show Watch the video, above. This segment of the Rachel Maddow Show is devoted to the ...

Matched by Ally Condie starts as chilling a book as you let it be. Its the kind of book that requires some careful reading to fully appr...