I don’t always agree with Jay Mathews, but this column entitled “Why I have no use for the achievement gap” is outstanding. What Matters Now, a free e-book compiled by Seth Godin and written by a variety of great authors, entrepreneurs, and thinkers...

School funding in many areas, including virtually all of my home state of Michigan, is in a crisis right now. Here in West Michigan, to maintain educational quality, districts have spent $104 million from their rainy-day funds just since spring. ...

Here are two great books that I’ve been reading lately about technology in education — I recommend both highly: 1. The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education From the introduction: “If this book could be shortened to its...

I am convinced that if we, as teachers, created such compelling and powerful uses for technology that the benefits of having 1:1 classrooms could be seen by all, we would have no trouble finding ways to acquire the technology we need to pull it off.

When I was in high school, it was understood that if you were going to be taking a higher-level math course (such as algebra 2, trigonometry, or calculus), you would need to purchase a certain school-recommended Texas Instruments graphing calculator...