about SAGE
Sharon McLennan and Mr. Sage have been collaborating on public education since 1995. Sharon is overeducated and cerebral, preferring to hide in her bunker and launch salvos from the safety of her anonymity. Mr Sage has nearly two decades of K-12 teaching experience. His reflections on teaching comprised much of the data in Sharon's dissertation. For the past several years, working every day in both a junior high and high school as both a substitute teacher and tutor, he continues to provide amazing ethnographic observations of school culture for our forthcoming book, "Trojan Horse in the Classroom." See an interview with Mr. Sage which Sharon conducted during her work on the Ph.D. dissertation. [Be very glad you never had to undergo something like this!]
Our goal is to understand and describe the culture and purposes of public education in America. We do this as practitioners and writers. We listen to teachers and students, to parents who send their kids to public schools, private schools or no school, to administrators and hapless members of the general public who may find themselves shooting from the hip in trying to respond to our questions.
Mr. Sage, who claims everything-is-connected-to-everything-else, writes seriously and humorously about education, his native environs, and the residents of the cowboy state. Check out a collection of his writing, perhaps beginning with an allegory on education. (Other writing by Sharon, Mr Sage and students can be reached from Table of Contents).
Continuing Research: Please contribute your opinions on aspects of students, schools and schooling in general by completing one or more of the education surveys. Perspectives from young people (students, drop-outs, recent graduates, homeschooled), as well as parents and others who care to examine and share their experiences, are especially welcome. There is a special page for students to provide your thoughts.
Feedback: Please feel free to send sharon general feedback on this website and the writing found herein, on your experiences of your own schooling, as well your opinions on educational issues, life, the universe and everything.