kitchen table math, the sequel

I saw a comment from March 2011 (on the occasion of last year's Celebration of Teaching and Learning ) remarking on the number of accus...

email from a friend: 21st Century skills are nothing but the rehashed SCANS skills . They are workforce skills translated into Outcome Ba...

Judging by the program content at this year's Celebration of Teaching and Learning , " 21st century skills " have won, and kn...

The " Celebration of Teaching and Learning " was such a miserable experience that I refused to return for the second day. Instead,...

Celebration of Teaching and Learning

lgm saw this poem on a poster in a library: The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the smarter you grow. The smarter...

Can I get advice on selecting/evaluating colleges to look at in more detail? I know that KTMers have recommended some web sites, but I didn...

Do any of you have a rcommendation for a boarding school for students with psychiatric issues?

I was swapping emails with SAT Verbal  on the subject of Chappaqua's new TARP program  this morning when it hit me: there's a reason...

One of the things I've begun to notice recently is that I can generally distinguish between kids who were taught to read using a whole l...

Cruising Purdue University's OWL site for advice on how to write an English paper, I find the following " Timeline ": Moral C...

During these same years, elementary staff had been working with Columbia University Teachers College to implement reading and writing worksh...

Rickie by Frederic Flach Seeing Through New Eyes: Changing the Lives of Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and other Developmental Di...

[Terri] LeClercq offers a very helpful technique to check for coherence in a multi-paragraph text: As you edit your rough draft, separate e...

I'm not a politically correct sort of person (I'm fairly antagonistic to political correctness, actually), but the casting for this ...

I've been waiting for this for some time, and am happy to report as of today or so, portions of Art of Problem Solving 's new Elemen...

resources in the comments thread And here are The Phonics Page and Don Potter .

I'd read chemprof 's and EM's descriptions of very bright students with serious reading problems, and I'd been appropriatel...

Three percent of New York property tax collections were used to pay pension costs in 2001; by 2015, pension costs are expected to eat up 35 ...

The lesson from " Bennett Hypothesis 2.0 " (pdf file) is that there is an overwhelming danger, especially over time, that higher f...