politics

Show an Affirming Flame: It’s Not The Real World and That’s a Good Thing

On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…

15 years ago

Whatever it takes ….

Is this what we mean by that current refrain "Whatever it takes"? This is from another era - 1991. Anything…

15 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

“Stony the road we trod” The inauguration of President Barak Obama

PDS marked the inauguration at its Peacemakers Assembly on Tuesday.  Entitled "Stony the road we trod" the event began with…

16 years ago

PDS is a a part of it.

More about our assembly later but here is a screenshot from the NYTimes website. The middle school Photo Journalism class…

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

Action Now

In his talk yesterday, Bruce Judson made reference to the first 100 days of the Roosevelt administration.  As now, there…

16 years ago

Human capital, stars aligned and the wise owls

On the way home tonight I heard Robert Reich on NPR’s Marketplace. The topic was Human Capital. The one sentence…

16 years ago

It’s a Different World

Thank you for bringing John Palfrey to the school last night. He was fabulous, and he spoke directly to issues…

16 years ago

An Education President for the 21st Century

The next president needs to be multi-dimensional, addressing issues that extend far beyond the classroom, but which are critically connected…

16 years ago

Donald “Trump” Duck, Goldilocks and the Three Bear Markets

More humor. This time from Fast Company magazine where Tom Stern wonders whether the over achievement of some adults has…

16 years ago

Heard on the Hustings

"You don't make a hog fatter by weighing it." Everyone went to school and that makes everyone an expert on…

17 years ago

NCLB: Another Perspective

Last night in his State of the Union address President Bush outlined proposals to extend the NCLB (“No Child Left…

18 years ago

Plus ça change, c’est la même chose – only faster

The one thing about which all educators are in agreement is that yesterday's education no longer suffices for today. The…

18 years ago