Transformation: Diane Ravitch and School Reform

15 years ago

“School reform today is like a freight train, and I’m out on the tracks saying, ‘You’re going the wrong way!’ ”…

The Ruben’s Tube: Dancing Fire

15 years ago

Click for an UPDATED version of this experiment and with a great new video. It’s always great when a student…

The Extra Mile

15 years ago

The Art History class took off for Italy last week. It's well over 4,000 miles from Poughkeepsie to Zurich and…

Science and technology heroes

15 years ago

It was Dean Kamen -  the inventor of the Segway and a version of the artificial heart - who established…

“What ails thee Jock?”

15 years ago

By now you have probably been sent a link to, or have even read, Playing to Learn – Susan Engel’s…

Where are the adults? Leadership and responsibility in the digital world.

15 years ago

Teacher of the Year Anthony Mullen has another excellent Road Diary post today.  At Kent State University, Ohio,  he walks…

“I know you are into technology …”

15 years ago

Well – yes – I suppose I am, and I always have been. As I child I haunted the school…

Advanced Pressure and the Race to Nowhere

15 years ago

Advanced Pressure - Video Library - The New York Times video.nytimes.com The problem with Advanced Placement classes and how they…

My First Comic

15 years ago

Inspired by Teach Paperless. Made using Make Beliefs Comix

Truthy quotes: The best and the bogus

15 years ago

A good quotation is like the perfect tweet - short, pithy, memorable, wise and wonderful. The the tip of an…