Education
The Effort Effect: The Audacity of High Hopes
The effort effect on display at Buttercup Farm Nature Reserve, near Poughkeepsie. See below for a photo of the dam.…
High School Madness
Too Busy to Eat, Students Get a New Required Course: Lunch Did you read this article from today's New York…
The New Progressivism
Read Peter Gow's Education Week article The New Progressivism is Here. Commenting on the 2008 NAIS annual conference held in…
The Cathedral of Complexity
The Complex Workings of the Human Brain Medical and cognitive sciences, new technologies, and pedagogic research are helping us appreciate…
Echoes
We don't own the words of course, but it was fun to come across these words from the PDS mission…
Education’s Rock Star: Standing Room Only for Ken Robinson
It was standing room only at Radio City for Sir Ken Robinson's keynote speech at the NAIS annual conference last…
Social Networking and Education
"Social Networking: does it bring positive change to education?" This is one of the questions posed by The Economist magazine.…
Any Relevance for Education?
"We used to fool ourselves…We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as it was. We expected our…
Becoming Citizens of the World
NAIS is working on a PGP (Principles of Good Practice) for Global Citizenship. Here is a draft. They are seeking…
It’s the Teachers …
"It's the teachers...." I refrain from adding the usual last word to that phrase because it seems unnecessarily rude but,…