Education

The New Progressivism

Read Peter Gow's Education Week article The New Progressivism is Here. Commenting on the 2008 NAIS annual conference held in…

17 years ago

The Cathedral of Complexity

The Complex Workings of the Human Brain Medical and cognitive sciences, new technologies, and pedagogic research are helping us appreciate…

17 years ago

Echoes

We don't own the words of course, but it was fun to come across these words from the PDS mission…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

Social Networking and Education

"Social Networking: does it bring positive change to education?" This is one of the questions posed by The Economist magazine.…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

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…

17 years ago

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,…

17 years ago

Everyone a Planner Now: No More Status Quo

Ten Trends: educating children for tomorrow’s world An article in the Journal of School Improvement a while back examined ten…

17 years ago

Stop Praising Students

There's a good article in the latest Educational Leadership: "The Perils and Promise of Praise". It's by Carol Dweck. The…

17 years ago