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First they make you crazy. Then they sell you the cure: Be Mindful of Mindless Mindfulness

Coloring books for adults are apparently a big new craze. Amazon's #1 bestseller in stress management/ self-help is a coloring…

9 years ago

Surprise! Deep Learning and Democracy

There’s solid evidence that American students do well when they are encouraged to think for themselves and expected to collaborate…

10 years ago

Let the handwringing stop. The US is not number one and that’s OK.

The latest Program for International Assessment (Pisa) results are out and that means another round of handwringing, lamentation, self-flagellation, finger…

11 years ago

Getting to Somewhere: The Changes They Made

Did you see the film Race to Nowhere? The film challenged the obsession with competition and evaluation in our education…

12 years ago

Cookie Cutter Kids: “Send us your winners…”

...and we'll make winners out of them" There's a good article in the latest edition of Independent School magazine that…

13 years ago

Occupy Education: The Revolution Starts Now

As always, lots of good stuff in the latest edition of Independent School, the quarterly magazine from NAIS. And those…

13 years ago

Outcomes and results matter: But what’s with all the testing?

In a recent post at Raining Acorns, a Pennsylvania parent records what happens in March school testing season. She outlines…

14 years ago

The Spreadsheet Solution

The NYSAIS heads conference is always valuable and 2010 was no exception. I usually hear NAIS president Pat Bassett in…

14 years ago

Ending the Race: One Project and its Mission

We need a broader vision of success. We believe that real success results from attention to the basic developmental needs…

14 years ago

Science and technology heroes

It was Dean Kamen -  the inventor of the Segway and a version of the artificial heart - who established…

15 years ago

Slow Food, Slow School: John Cleese and the Promise of the Tortoise Brain

There's a slow food movement so why not a slow mind movement? Some years ago Guy Claxton wrote Hare Brain,…

16 years ago