Maybe it's because progress reports at my high school were recently given to students, but lately I've been thinking about the role of failure in schools. The F-word, here and its corresponding letter grade support a high-stakes & high-...
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about...
At a time when so many teachers and administrators fear and forbid student access to the internet from school, a high school teacher on the California coast is encouraging students by the hundreds to blog, Skype, gamify, and mindmap...
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about...
I recently had occasion to talk on the phone with someone whose posts on education and social media I follow with interest on Twitter. ToughLoveforX (his Twitter name) is a retired printer whose scan of the educational horizon in the...
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. This insight from Anne Frank is evidenced today all across the world in education and many other domains. People are doing amazing things. Start ups...
Teaching and education in America has been a very hot subject in the news. In recent days, there have been lengthy pieces on “building a better teacher,” the ripple effects of a Rhode Island school board’s decision to fire the entire...
“From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to...
I recently had occasion to talk on the phone with someone whose posts on education and social media I follow with interest on Twitter. ToughLoveforX (his Twitter name) is a retired printer whose scan of the educational horizon in the...
Maybe it's because progress reports at my high school were recently given to students, but lately I've been thinking about the role of failure in schools. The F-word, here and its corresponding letter grade support a high-stakes & high-...
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about...
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. This insight from Anne Frank is evidenced today all across the world in education and many other domains. People are doing amazing things. Start ups...
Maybe it's because progress reports at my high school were recently given to students, but lately I've been thinking about the role of failure in schools. The F-word, here and its corresponding letter grade support a high-stakes & high-...
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about...
At a time when so many teachers and administrators fear and forbid student access to the internet from school, a high school teacher on the California coast is encouraging students by the hundreds to blog, Skype, gamify, and mindmap...
I'm usually pretty optimistic about the possibilities available to innovative teachers and students. Lately, however, I've been worried about the wholesale apathy and universal shoulder-shrug that's been the response to "What do we do about...
Teaching and education in America has been a very hot subject in the news. In recent days, there have been lengthy pieces on “building a better teacher,” the ripple effects of a Rhode Island school board’s decision to fire the entire...
“From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to...
I recently had occasion to talk on the phone with someone whose posts on education and social media I follow with interest on Twitter. ToughLoveforX (his Twitter name) is a retired printer whose scan of the educational horizon in the...
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. This insight from Anne Frank is evidenced today all across the world in education and many other domains. People are doing amazing things. Start ups...
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