Youth - our greatest resource - is being seriously neglected in a vital respect. The nation as a whole is not preparing teachers or building schools fast enough to keep up with the increase in our population.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at the same time.

Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whoso-ever will, let him come" doctrine, and is in danger of becoming little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.