kitchen table math, the sequel

more from Barry's article on the Common Core : This approach not only complicates the simplest of math problems; it also leads to dela...

Speaking of knowing things by heart , when did that expression disappear from common usage? We know it by heart. A lovely metaphor. Thes...

I just checked out one of the articles Barry quotes and found this: Paula Tommins asked, “How are we training the teachers and supporting...

An Amazon book review: The reason I gave this book two stars, is because we use this book in our class all of the time. Most of the stories ...

Barry writes : A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com describing some of the problems with how math is currently being t...

I think someone's going to be getting a Writing the Essay mug for Christmas. AND SEE: the boss compositionists

I read a fabulous passage the other night re: process writing, purportedly drawn from Peter Elbow's work. Can't track down the origi...

A new study of elementary and middle school students has found that those who are the youngest in their grades score worse on standardized ...

I was talking to Katharine today about teaching writing. I've been focusing on sentence combining, specifically on teaching students to...

Finally emerging from Hurricane Sandy discombobulation to discover that Poof : the semester is gone. I have just four classes left to teach ...

Since our power came back on (8 days without), Ed and I are both loving our light switches! I've been walking around the house turning...

from Mom of 4 : A recent post on another website made a good point about the current edworld fad that grammar should be "caught, not ...

electricty

Apart from the standard difficulties my students exhibit when I'm working with them on relative clauses in Latin (such as the idea that...

Con Ed restored power to everyone in town but 41 houses (plus another set downtown on one street), and left . No word from the mayor . I...

from Katharine's post on " The Writing Revolution ": - Many under-privileged children, even in high school, don’t know how ...

Camped out in the faculty lounge post-Sandy, reading articles on "basic writing": At a recent workshop for high school and commu...

Still no power; house is down to 51 degrees. We were set to move to a studio apartment at NYU tomorrow but have just learned that 90% of the...

Peg Tyre’s recent article in the Atlantic, " The Writing Revolution ,” provoked controversy among educators, many of whom find direct ...

We have power. We also have trees. This morning I've relearned the lesson of Darwin: we've been through three ' Treemageddons...