Chip Mosher


Chip Mosher is an educator, poet, author and newspaper columnist who writes about education and history.

Early life and education

Mosher, who grew up in Northeastern Ohio, spent the 10th grade in a boys' juvenile hall. He graduated in 1965 from Salem High School.
In 1969, he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. He attended a master's program at Duke Divinity School from 1969-1972, and he earned a master’s in education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1998.

Career

Mosher was a volunteer teacher in Thessaloniki, Greece from 1972-1974. In 1988, he started teaching history at a high-risk school within the Clark County School District in Las Vegas.
Beginning in 2005, he wrote a weekly column titled "Socrates in Sodom" for Las Vegas CityLife, an alternative newsweekly, until the paper folded in 2014. The tag line at the end of his column stated that he was "a simple classroom teacher." He also wrote a monthly almanac for CityLife. In 2018, he began writing an almanac for Desert Companion magazine. The column, titled "Random Access Memory," also appears on Nevada Public Radio's website, which publishes the monthly magazine.
As a teacher who wrote about the school district he worked for, the opinions in his column caused controversy. As a result, he is regularly interviewed about education issues.

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