Mostly observations on the state of public education in the United States and the perpetual efforts to reform it along with commentary on products for classroom use, written from a perspective of someone involved in K-12 teaching.
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Jay Mathews and a colleague at the Post are soliciting suggestions for their lists of the ten best education blogs of 2009.
I had the honor of being placed on Uncle Jay’s list of favorites last year, primarily due to my
frequent rants about the...
Back to the continuing budget mess here in the overly-large school district.
The superintendent and others have been holding meetings with employee groups and community members (and distributing poorly worded surveys) to get suggestions on what...
Since EduCon 2.2 proposals were due today, of course I submitted mine just a few hours ago. Nothing new… I usually do my other homework assignments at the last minute as well. :-)
EduCon is something unique among the many education-related conferences...
In their current issue, Washington Monthly has an interesting article about one vision of the future of a college education.
The article profiles a company called StraighterLine that is using a Netflix model to offer all-you-can-handle online courses...
I guess the problem with international assessments, the ones that show US kids doing poorly compared to their peers in other countries, is that we’re using the wrong ones.
At least according to the expert Jay Mathews interviewed.
He says the PISA...
