From 2017 01 29 Caribbean Cruise Today's photo-of-the-day is from the ancient Mayan city of Coba on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. ...

IMDB Sand Storm (2016): Girl meets boy. Dad objects and arranges a different marriage. Then dad brings home a second wife. Age-old story....

From 2017 01 29 Caribbean Cruise Today's photo-of-the-day is from the ancient Mayan city of Coba on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. ...

IMDB Lo and Behold (2016): History & future of the Internet. Some topics are promising (AI), some scary (solar flares), some badly mi...

IMDB Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016): War in Iraq. Pro football in Dallas. A study of PTSD. Flat acting. Clichéd characters. W...

Five years ago, I blogged about magnet schools — their purpose and their effect. I think it holds up well, in that I had questions about th...

From 2017 01 29 Caribbean Cruise Today's photo-of-the-day is from Galveston Bay, the entrance to the busy Houston Ship Channel, ranke...

Recently, I posted a graph showing Richardson ISD schools' academic ranking plotted against the percentage of students they have on the...

IMDB Logan Lucky (2017): Redneck Oceans 11, where NASCAR not Vegas is the target. Decent fun if you bring enough suspension of disbelief....

When looking at Schooldigger.com school performance numbers, I fell back on a story of demographics to explain why the Richardson ISD has ...