kitchen table math, the sequel

Catherine and Katharine Please come!

Nice op-ed from a 37-year veteran teacher who nails it to the wall,  regarding what teaching has become–a slave to reform ed ideas. And how...

I'm finding it incredible that about five seconds ago I was writing posts about teaching math to C., and today C. is taking his NY state...

OK, this is annoying. I've been so lax writing the blog that I no longer remember how to fix the recent comments widget, or even where...

Actual conversation on this Memorial Day: C. (studying for teacher exam): I hate geometry. Me: Then you should probably do some geometry...

Camille Paglia's essay  Free Speech and the Modern Campus  is well worth reading. In it, she makes a point Ed has made any number of t...

Math Education in the U.S.: Still Crazy After All These Years Very exciting!

Déjà vu: When we talk about remedial courses, we usually talk about community colleges, where more than half of students take them, and wh...

Matthew Tabor  has just posted a video called " Common Core Explained" on The 74 . I watched half of it, and am now having so mu...

But just barely. Endless book revisions, local property tax calamity, house fixing-upping ----- I need an island get-away.

I don't know the answer to that question. I'm asking. My new copy of Education Week has a front-page story titled " Will the ...

In The Economist : WHEN Louisiana State University fired a professor in June 2015 for using rude words in a class designed to prepare teac...

I opened my Wall Street Journal app this morning to see this: The campaign in Iowa performed its usual task of starting the long process o...

Blast from the past! I'm watching the Iowa caucuses on CNN ... and the announcer is in Coralville. I lived in Coralville! I don...

I have no doubt Adam Grant's op-ed on raising a creative child, which ran in yesterday's Times , is being emailed to teachers across...

researchED Conference Speakers Very exciting!

Debbie and her daughter Daisy are writing a book!

I've mentioned several times that I became a macro aficionado after the crash -- a macro aficionado and a Fed watcher, heaven help me. ...

Sorting books this afternoon, I came across Tahir Yaqoob's What Can I Do to Help My Child with Math When I Don't Know Any Myself?  a...