kitchen table math, the sequel

I read the David Sedaris piece on Christmas in Holland a couple of mornings ago -- hilarious. Starts slowly, with a somewhat protracted rumi...

update: Here is Mary Damer on masked deficits & poor spelling in high-performing students . Some of you who've been reading and wr...

May 7, 2006

employing 21st century technology...

4/2006 -   the first day .... and Catherine's story   (all pages are frozen; I can't edit them) 11/30/2006 - Christopher masters ...

Just in time for Christmas! (It's from U Mass, which has put Chris in its Honors college and given him $10K in merit aid (unasked). H...

I'd characterize yesterday as an epically bad day in my 46 years of life, and while the turmoil had nothing to do with the SAT, my ...

re: Stop the multiverse, I want to get off Why do we have books called Grammar to Enrich and Enhance Writing ? Seriously. How is "G...

So I was propounding my theory that Something Happened in 1985 , a world-jarring event that catapulted us all into a parallel universe where...

" The Nodal Classroom " An amazing new educational paradigm! It's the Node™, brought to you by Steelcase. Ta Da! Music pleas...

How are we doing ?

We haven’t been able to increase the share of our youth that completes college or high school. It’s really remarkable, and most people would...

Two summers ago, I wrote a number of posts on The Race between Education and Technology , a book I found revelatory. Via Greg Mankiw's ...

Jen writes : I was talking to a teacher friend the other day and he was lamenting that the curriculum is going to change yet again and that...

Having now spent two fall semesters in a row trawling the web for research and advice on the teaching of freshman composition, I have come t...

from the Annals of I read the news today, oh boy : Stanford Medical School, which allows its students to take lectures online if they want...

Last Thursday I was talking to 3 of my students about this and that when the topic of online learning and online courses came up. I don'...

from the same article : Khan Academy, for its part, teamed up last year with the Los Altos, Calif., school district to launch a pilot of th...

Susan Kramer watched her packed 10th grade biology class weave through rows of desks, pretending to be proteins and picking up plastic-bead ...