Taking A Closer Look At What The Research Says About Preschool by Neal McCluskey, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute Register For Pre-School Education: What The Research Says hosted by The Cato Institute Live Stream of the event can be viewed Tuesday, January 7th at 12 p.m. Eastern A Nation at Risk. New American Schools….
Bah, Humbug: Why I Hate the Holidays In Schools by Jane Healey, Humbug From the end of Thanksgiving break until the beginning of the holidays, I grit my teeth, steel my nerves and keep my head down. I don’t believe much learning happens, and I know conflicts and clashes escalate quickly. I’m overscheduled, short on…
The old way to be cool was to be plugged in and always-on. Digital reputation on point. More followers than people you follow. Respond to messages in seconds. The new cool? Total isolation, solitary confinement style. And it can be yours for just over $2000 US. Distraction-free academic interaction: the students, the text, and nothing…
Nothing endures like love. So when a 96 year-old man, recently widowed from his wife of 73 years, read about a songwriting contest, in lieu of his complete lack of experience he felt moved to respond. The heart-breaking–and heart-warming–result, published on twentytwowords.com, can be seen below. Love wins.
/sarcasm Just as learning is changing, Back-to-School supplies are changing in tandem. While the classroom above models much of the very latest in edu-thought, from the columns of desks to the pencil and paper exam, the perfect void of any student work, inspiring visuals, or learning tools on the walls to the lack of any…
Helping at risk students go to college takes energy, time and commitment. Yet, seeing them reach their potential is our passion as teachers.
Math rap is amazing. This video checks all the boxes you’d ever want, including awkwardness, pop rap, and forced math content.
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Short of lifelong study under monkish self-discipline, any history of education is going to be necessarily brief. Miss some stuff. Oversimplify. Like the one below, conveniently in infographic form that leaves out all mention of Socrates or John Dewey, but includes facebook and MOOCs. That said, it’s worth a skim if for no other reason…
We love thisisindexed.com, by Jessica Hagy, who uses visuals to express ideas. What is the relationship between confusion and information?
In our well-intended insistence to bring everyone up to “proficiency” via academic “standards,” there is also an automatic reductionism that occurs, whereby all of the known universe is distilled into a script of need to know. While the logic seems sounds–how can we know we’re educating students if we don’t know where the learning should begin or…
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