About Myself

I began my career in education in 1952, teaching in a semi-rural high school in northeastern Ohio.  Since then I've taught at every level from 6th grade through the university, been a county-level school administrator, publisher consultant, teacher educator, textbook author, contributor to professional journals, author of professional books, writer of instructional materials, visitor to schools across America and abroad, and long-time education columnist for Knight-Ridder/Tribune.

With the exception of the button labeled "Personal," all the links below are to my essays, books, journal articles, and newspaper columns relating to education—specifically to the general education curriculum.

All reflect my contention that knowledge is seamless, systemic, and mutually supportive, that the human brain is "wired" to select, organize, integrate, and create knowledge, that the young can be helped to elevate these processes into consciousness and make deliberate use of them, and that doing so allows intellectual performance not possible when knowledge is compartmentalized and fragmented.