It seems that Finland is big in the news of late as that small country continues to take center stage in the world of education reform. As this recent article in the New York Times points up, the “Finnish model” …
Here’s a very interesting post from Valerie Strauss’ education blog at the Washington Post describing a successful adult who attempted his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading test. Needless to say he didn’t do well, but the really powerful point …
Recently, one of my classes has been analyzing Plato’s Crito and Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience. I always look forward to giving my students these particular texts because of the vitriolic responses that they often evoke (Socrates was crazy…
Originally I set out to write a narrative of what it is like in the head of… well what it is like in my head during any kind of social situation or in a classroom setting. Unfortunately, I found that …
If you’ve got some time to mess around (and I know you probably don’t) check out this website UNZ.org. Although its set-up looks somewhat skeletal, it contains a pretty vast array of resources; articles, books, videos, in all different …
Not to perpetuate the whole teacher pay uproar, but here we have Arne Duncan saying that teachers should be paid like other professionals, doctors, lawyers, engineers. Those comments sparked some vehement disagreement on the Department of Ed. blog page.…
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