Education

Future Past Imperfect

Enjoy the drawing. But but then read this: Shifting Ground from Chris Lehmann. From the Chicago Tribune 1958. (But only…

15 years ago

Locked out of Learning

When I’m in the car I listen to WAMC, and yesterday I heard Roland Fryer’s Dowmel lecture. His specialty is…

15 years ago

Whatever it takes ….

Is this what we mean by that current refrain "Whatever it takes"? This is from another era - 1991. Anything…

15 years ago

State of Play

So the debate on the purpose of play in early childhood simmers on. It popped up on my Facebook page…

15 years ago

Publish! And democratize learning.

Interesting post from The Innovative Educator: 21st Century Educators Don’t Say, “Hand It In.” They say, “Publish It! Read the…

15 years ago

Dangerous Praise

Good reminder about how not to praise from Stephen Currie in a recent post to the PDS Math Guy Blog.…

15 years ago

Testing Madness on the Race to Nowhere

A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes – just the latest bulletin from a…

15 years ago

You Want To Change Behavior? Make It Fun

Education is all about change. And fun makes it so much more effective. Here's a great example from Stockholm -…

15 years ago

That was then: Are we “betraying most of our children”?

From: We are the people movie people This landmark independent documentary … explores the education system … and asks whether…

15 years ago

The new literacy ladder. What rung are you on?

The world is moving at a tremendous rate. Going no one knows where. We must prepare our children, not for…

15 years ago