kitchen table math, the sequel

Hi everyone - I'm spending New Year's Eve in Chatham, IL. Gotta figure out my resolutions. Happy New Year!

at Debbie Stier's house

Today I visited the best public school in the district. A school so good that they brought in Singapore math. All but one of the teachers at...

What exactly is " Readers' Workshop "? My son's school just sent me an email announcing the apparently great news that we...

Debbie Stier found this today. No idea what it's like - but if it's good it's exactly what I need. One thing I need, anyway...

also in the new Harvard Education Letter: Other experts working to train teachers onlinoe agree. "One of the hallmarks of online learn...

My copy of the Harvard Education Letter arrived in the mail yesterday: These days, everyone is trying to get students to think about their ...

Hainish writes: I had a fantastic English teacher in grade 7. We did diagramming sentences, the whole nine yards. For me, it was the best ...

Tips for Teaching Grammar: Sentence Diagramming (pdf file)

Hirsch writes: In my mind, progressive educational ideas have proved so seductive because their appeal lies not in their practical effect...

Over-administered and under-taught (I didn't write the title!) under the Christmas tree, part 1

A second inflation measure comes from Web behemoth Google and is a pet project of the company's chief economist, Hal Varian. As reported...

There’s a certain country where everybody wants to have a son. Therefore each couple keeps having children until they have a boy; then they ...

re: weight loss , Bill Clinton , and books These are the books I read: The China Study by T. Colin Campbell Reversing Heart Disease ...

Every few years I think I've found the secret of weight loss and maintenance. One year it was Strattera . Another year it was Seth R...

“Look, this is what you need to do. So like it or not, do it.” A principal pushing teachers to raise expectations and adopt an inquiry model...

On the other end of the socioeconomic spectrum is affluent Adlai Stevenson High School—a one-school district in the Chicago area. Students a...

Yesterday morning I got up, came downstairs, and there under the tree was a bright and shiny new curriculum administrator wrapped up a red b...

apparently being barista also means being neoretrosoulculture DJ at this Harlem Starbucks, two blocks from the A-train Express station on 12...