Small item on the Education Minnesota website: St. Paul, Minn., June 23, 2008 — Citing personal reasons, 2008 Minnesota Teacher of the Year Carleen Gulstad has resigned from that title effective today. Gulstad, who teaches language arts at Hopkins North...

Over at Armchair Commentary, Ellen Kim is deliberating on the five greatest movie teachers, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week (which has just ended, in case you were wondering when your thank-you gift would arrive). Kim’s list is pretty traditional:...

In her last year of a degree program in Justice Studies, my daughter took a course called “Surveillance in Society.” The readings and discussion were around intrusions into personal privacy and data made possible by technology. Dear Daughter and I...

Several years ago, under circumstances too convoluted and nonsensical to delineate, I suddenly found myself teaching one class of 7th grade math. I have a major and two minors in music, and at the time the assignment was made (three...