National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (part of National Institutes of Health) did a nationwide study, after Columbine, of bullying in public and private schools in grades 6 through 10. Read more

Well, someone in your family and mine may need therapy, but not the British (they're British!) An odd project came to light recently in relation to the awarding of the Booker Prize. It's for the best book of fiction produced in the Commonwealth and Ireland. There's a prize each year, and the list of winners in recent years is known as the Short List. Read more

Alternative schools were around at least a generation ago. They came to be associated with less structure, fewer rules, and less demanding standards than good public or private schools; but they were often the most useful places to get turned-off kids turned on again.

Then charter schools became an alternative to both public and private schools. Read more

The winds of political correctness blow swiftly near this area of Pacific storms, and it's sometimes hard to tell whether diversity is in or out.

Here and now, it's both. That is, diversity is in; but the Diversity Index (by which measure school assignments are made) is so controversial that the school board doesn't know what to do about it. So, for the present, they've decided to do nothing. Read more