kitchen table math, the sequel

Marna writes : My daughter is learning disabled from a stroke at birth. This is her 3rd VERY SUCCESSFUL summer at Morningside Academy. Whe...

FedUp Mom writes : I am thoroughly skeptical of the ability of "experts" to determine whether a child's problem is emotional...

For years I have puzzled over the weirdness of diets and dieting. When you're on a diet -- when I'm on a diet -- I'm trying t...

The 100-Book Challenge . Apparently, the 100 Book Challenge is yet another program that produces parent uprisings . The people at Mornin...

Wow. That was intense . Eight-hour classes during the day, 3-hour reading assignments at night, tests each morning, no family, no dogs, no...

Most of us who read education blogs are aware that Penelope Trunk has become a radical unschooler .  (For those not familiar with her, she...

I'm here in Seattle, attending Morningside Academy 's Summer Institute, and ---- wow. We should just turn the entire K-12 system o...

re: memorization, Erica writes : Memorization seems to be pretty strongly predictive of later success ---- ! That's because you can...

" Academic Music " No idea what to make of this, but I don't rule it out. Temple always used to say that music was the prec...

Don't think I've ever mentioned the Dana Foundation's Brain in the News . I'm a fan. Free subscriptions here I've ju...

more from the Times : Last month I asked my students to take a pro or con position on the topic of genetic engineering; one student vocife...

Well, thanks to Texas Republicans including the words "critical thinking" in a statement no one outside a tiny group of public sch...

In the Times: In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the ...

The real horror, however, was on a one-page sheet – this was not on the agenda and was meant to be buried — titled, “Summary of January 201...

On the subject of full inclusion, palisadesk writes : The full inclusion movement in my district definitely evolved from three separate tr...

As I would learn in my five years on the board, there are no absolute victories and no deafening defeats in the land of education governanc...

At some low point in my tenure on the board of education in my small school district, a friend advised, “Don’t worry. You are like gravity. ...

Bullying and Victimization: The Role of Conduct Problems and Psychopathic Traits Kostas A. Fanti1,*, Eva R. Kimonis2 Article first publis...

Larry Summers, economist : Suppose the educational system is drastically altered to reflect the structure of society and what we now under...

The " critical thinking " discussion brought David Mulroy 's The War Against Grammar to mind. I remember Mulroy making an a...