How the Dirth Stole Learning! – A Yuletide Tale of Education Reform (12-8-13)
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In 2013, in the middle of the summer while taking a dip in my in-law’s pool with my kids, my son and I concocted my favorite holiday series ever. After it ran in the Daytona Beach News-Journal, it also appeared on Valerie Strauss’s Answer Sheet blog at the Washington Post. I also created a book version.

Nine years later, we have yet to dump these reforms. Here’s hoping that by the 10th anniversary, we might finally learn what Dirth does by the end…


Thanks to my son, Christopher Finkle, for helping me pen the Dr. Seuss parody, and to Gloria Pipkin for helping me edit the series!