Category: Education (Page 1 of 9)

Fembots aren’t going to fix education.

July 20, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

New York school deploys AI teaching robot from company linked to sex bots

The first potential steps toward another profession being wiped out by AI are being taken in New York. When students in the Salamanca City Central School District in Western New York return to school in the fall, they will find a new teaching assistant: a robotic one powered by artificial intelligence.

People who don’t understand technology or learning, have always predicted that the new technology will make teachers obsolete.

A socialist day off could be like any good day now.

July 18, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Please read the platform for the Democratic Socialists of America, and see if you an find anything more than fantasies and conspiracies.

Socialism is greed and envy for people with no skills.

Two historical facts.

The Soviet Union was the USSR. That stands for the United Soviet Socialist Republic. They were international socialists.

Nazi is the abbreviation for the German name “Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei”, in English, that is the National Socialist German Workers Party. They were national socialists.

Teacher unions give money to Democrats

May 19, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Free Press: How Teachers’ Unions Became Political Big Spenders

A new report claims national teachers’ unions are operating more like Democratic funding machines than groups advocating for their rank and file.

None of this is new information.

A senior adviser to the Trump administration told The Free Press that the Department of Education “will be looking at this report very closely and if warranted, we will investigate further.”

My connection to Chernobyl.

April 26, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Today is the 40^th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster. Today, people know about the disaster, with many becoming familiar from the excellent miniseries Chernobyl. It has an IMDB score of 9.2 and is worth watching on HBO Max.

At the time, it was the radioactive fallout over Scandinavia that got my attention. Ten years later, I had a student who had been there.

School shooting

April 22, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Student dies from self-inflicted gunshot in Valley Forge High School cafeteria

A friend teaches at Valley Forge. He called me a couple of hours later to tell me what happened and about the student. That’s not my story to tell, and the inside scoop is probably all over social media.

Words men or women know

February 12, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

YouGov: Words that men or women are more likely to know

YouGov asked a bunch of Americans which words they knew. Some words were recognized much more frequently by men, and some by women.

Here are the words that men knew more:

aileron, azimuth, boson, bushido, checksum, degauss, femtosecond, gauss, howitzer, katana, milliamp, neodymium, parsec, piezoelectricity, servo, strafe, teraflop, thermistor and yakuza

Here are the words that women knew more:

bandeau, boucle, chambray, chenille, chignon, damask, doula, espadrille, freesia, jacquard, kohl, peplum, pessary, ruche, sateen, taffeta, tulle, verbena, voile and whipstich.

YouGov did not ask the surveyed people to define or explain the words.

Another Snow Day

January 26, 2026 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Snow Days are the best.

Everyone from students all the way up to the district superintendent gets a tap on the shoulder by Frosty, and told, “You are free. Nobody will expect anything from you today.”

Classroom Phone Bans Work. So Why Don’t All Schools Do It?

December 27, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

WSJ: Classroom Phone Bans Work. So Why Don’t All Schools Do It?

A large urban district in Florida saw an increase in student test scores. A smaller school district in rural California is experiencing a dramatic decline in student behavioral problems. The reason for both: the absence of smartphones in the classroom.

Public schools are administrated by political animals without the ambition or ability to run for office. Some care about education, but no incentive rewards that.

Parents don’t push for phone bans because they don’t care about their children. A flip phone with no data plan solves all these issues. Parents are so eager to be liked, they willingly put their children in danger.

Get smart the easy way.

October 6, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sometimes you want to learn stuff without working too hard. The Youtube channel, Fall of Civilizations is smart and engaging.

Bad schools are a choice.

October 4, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

That is the beauty of having education be a state responsibility. Different states can take different approaches, and we see what works. It’s called the “Laboratory of Democracy”.

Mississippi is our poorest state, but it is winning in elementary education, doing about as well as Ohio.