Broad Oak Magazine

If I were to single out one thing which holds much of US education back from excellence, it is the structure of tests. So much of the testin...

Before implementing solutions to a problem, it is wise to understand what the issues are. In 1957, our government and business leaders began...

  For many years, I have wondered about the efficacy of advertising. Then, I listened to a couple of the 'Freakonomics' podcasts, wh...

There is current news on the intent of the state legislature to take over the State Board of Education, and the articles on the subject incl...

As Heinlein pointed out, the natural state of Man appears to be poverty. Two hundred years ago, a person living on my property was 10 miles ...

In about 2015, our department was being pressured to offer online courses. When I read around the subject, it turned out that the results of...

When I moved to the US in 1978, teaching was a fairly well-respected union job that could keep someone solidly in the middle class. The pay ...

 America has interesting and rather diverse views on physical labour. While there is loud praise of the Protestant Work Ethic, an awful lot ...

Tracking the chaos... A confluence of events in the early 1980's combined to produce an interesting result in the finance sector. One wa...

Tracking the chaos... I came to the US from the UK in 1978 at age 21. Since I was relatively healthy growing up, I had only had minor experi...

Tracking the chaos... Gerrymandering is the process of drawing legislative maps so that the legislators drawing the maps get to select their...

Tracking the chaos... As the US lurches towards the midterms in November, the Republican governors of many states are outdoing themselves in...

Tracking the chaos... The United States has had a tortured history with slavery and its legacy, beginning long before the Revolutionary War ...

The following is in part intended as a rebuttal to, or alternative take on, Paddington's 'Email From America (4)' , on the party...

Tracking the chaos... Insulin was discovered in 1921 by Sir Frederick Banting, Charles Best and J.J.R. Macleod at the University of Toronto ...

Tracking the chaos... The Republican strategists have known for decades that demographics are against them. As society becomes more racially...

Tracking the chaos... This week brings the confirmation hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. The GOP members in the ...

Tracking the chaos... GOP Senator Mike Braun of Indiana was questioned by reporters today, and expressed his opinion that rights to abortion...

Tracking the chaos... A column in a West Virginia newspaper today noted the continuing trend over several decades that Red-leaning, conserva...

 I went to school and got my undergraduate degree in England, in the 1960's and 1970's. The educational system, then and there, was ...