Education

Kids need recess

School recess improves behavior - from the NYTimes. Anyone surprised?

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

In the microscope

PDS has new science laboratories. Time for a poem from the Czech poet-scientist Miroslav Holub. In the Microscope Here too…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

Grading and Upgrading

Take Paul Barnwell's "test" in this article from NEA Today.  How do your answers compare?  Did he miss any questions?…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

“The Class” – a film to look for

Teachers often take a jaundiced eye to films that claim to depict the classroom experience. It’s akin to being skeptical…

16 years ago

What’s next?

First  the music and the record stores closed.  And then the  books - Posman's on Broadway, Ivy's and too many…

16 years ago