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This Day in History 4/19: The “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”

On April 19, 1775, a group of Massachusetts militiamen converged on the village common of Lexington.  Approaching was a British column heading to Concord to seize the arms and munitions stored there....

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This Day in History 12/16: The Boston Tea Party

Image via Wikipedia Today’s story is not about 342 chests of tea dumped into a harbor. It is not about Sons of Liberty, Samuel Adams or John Hancock. It is not about Committees of Correspondence,...

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The Teacher “Bar” Exam is no solution to teacher quality

The Sad truth about Education programs in the US (Photo credit: brewbooks) When a cat and a dog start howling at the moon together, something is terribly wrong. With Randi Weingarten and Arne Duncan...

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This Day in History 3/11: The Great Blizzard of 1888

Now that spring is coming soon, it might serve as a reminder that the end of winter can be just as turbulent as the rest of the season. March 11, 1888, was shaping up to be another unseasonably warm...

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