Education
Do you Twitter?
We are experimenting with an additional way to help people keep in touch with what's going on at PDS. If…
What is school for?
Seth Godin is a marketeer and prolific generator of ideas. His blog often has interesting nuggets about education. The purpose…
Saving the Children from Science
There's another of those scary science stories in today's NYTimes: Split Outcome in Texas Battle in Teaching Evolution. The real…
Stephen Colbert hears the Mermaids
What's the difference between a metaphor and lying? With a president who reads Derek Walcott and quotes June Jordan it's…
In the microscope
PDS has new science laboratories. Time for a poem from the Czech poet-scientist Miroslav Holub. In the Microscope Here too…
A Children’s Manifesto for Creativity
Question: What do you need to be creative and succeed in the future? Point number one: We want less formality…
The World is Not Flat: The New Economics
In a new book, The Venturesome Economy Amar Bhidé challenges The World is Flat notion proposed by Thomas Friedman in…
Grading and Upgrading
Take Paul Barnwell's "test" in this article from NEA Today. How do your answers compare? Did he miss any questions?…
It takes a teacher … to make a difference
... I was always interested in trying to communicate, to have a feeling from someone to make me feel that…