Education

Setting your socks on fire

Looking through old PDS school photos  – pictures of children working with tools, wading waist deep in muddy ponds and…

15 years ago

Music and Arts lag. Can poetry be far behind?

This week in the NYTimes – news of a rather discouraging report about music and arts education across the US.…

16 years ago

Good news for wool gatherers

A wandering mind heads toward insight WSJ article  reports on findings that suggest: …our brain may be most actively engaged…

16 years ago

Snow! “Now don’t eat it, Scout, you’re wasting it”

With the chance of a snow day looming and with the news of snow across much of Alabama my mind…

16 years ago

Like a good debate?

Interested in education? Like a good debate? Then Bridging Differences is for you. It's an ongoing debate between two of…

16 years ago

10 Tips for Creating a 21st Century Classroom Experience

Can design help children learn? That's the cover story of in the February Metropolis Magazine lent to me last week…

16 years ago

What matters most? Tough choices for tough times

At a recent conference a speaker suggested that choosing a school was akin to choosing a cell phone* - as…

16 years ago

Academic Earth

A wave of the future: College lectures available online for free. Academic Earth: Free access to thousands of world class…

16 years ago

Do you Twitter?

We are experimenting with an additional way to help people keep in touch with what's going on at PDS. If…

16 years ago

What is school for?

Seth Godin is a marketeer and prolific generator of ideas.  His blog often has interesting  nuggets about education. The purpose…

16 years ago