Author: Eric Wearne

By Eric Wearne • Jun 27,2004

Putting the “fun” in unfunded mandates

The U.S. Department of Education building in Washington is a great symbol of the confused state of American public education today. It is a large, Soviet-looking, concrete box. It conjures...

By Eric Wearne • Feb 22,2004

Unintelligent design in Georgia’s public schools

Sometimes the South just can’t help shooting itself in the foot. Last year, it was the fight to keep the stars and bars on Georgia’s state flag. Last month, the...

By Eric Wearne • Nov 23,2003

Pay teachers what they are (or aren’t) worth

As a first year high school English teacher in a suburban county outside Atlanta, I was making more money than most of my friends who had majored in Finance or...