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Transformation: Diane Ravitch and School Reform

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

15 years ago

The Ruben’s Tube: Dancing Fire

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

15 years ago

The Extra Mile

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

15 years ago

Science and technology heroes

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

15 years ago

“What ails thee Jock?”

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

15 years ago

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

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

15 years ago

“I know you are into technology …”

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

15 years ago

Advanced Pressure and the Race to Nowhere

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

15 years ago

My First Comic

Inspired by Teach Paperless. Made using Make Beliefs Comix

15 years ago

Truthy quotes: The best and the bogus

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

15 years ago