This is a plea for help..

I find that it is very easy to create ugly on this site. The controls seem sort of haphazardly placed. Everything should be much simpler so a busy person with other things on their mind can prevail.

One big help would be to have a portfolio of beautiful designs in various areas and I would just take one and play with it. I'm an Art Director so the idea of publishing something on an ugly site stops me in my tracks. Look at my record for the last year. I fully intended to …

This piece is actually going to be a podcast this week. I wanted to put it here first because it has a nice sweep to it. You know a lot about me now and a lot about education now. Just 650 words or whatever. It's the sort of article I will publish on substack. personal, a broad vision, a constant attempt to explain to Mr. and Mrs. America what exactly is messed up about K-12.

GOALS OF THIS SITE: I'm a novelist, artist, poet, and education reformer.

I was drawn to education by the criminality and pathology. In other words, I wasn't one of those people who fantasizes about the perfect school. The more I wrote about K-12 education, the more I realized that 100 years ago, things were actually done fairly intelligently. Mostly, a good school is just an expression of common sense. It's the bad schools that are intellectually fascinating. When left-wing intellectuals, sta…