kitchen table math, the sequel

The joy of lecturing--With a critique of the romantic tradition of education writing (Appendix to How to Teach Mathematics by S.G. Krantz,...

After I mentioned how impossible I'm finding the project of creating a thesis statement 'algorithm ,' Hainish suggested using my...

I missed this when it came out: Electronic Textbooks: Why the Rush? Terrific. Needless to say, my district, which intends to make techno...

oh, man! Finally finished my semester (grading still to do, but classes & exit exams are done...) and am immersed, with Katie B , in a...

Terrific op-ed by Fred Hess (just saw Barry post it to Facebook). In 2013, Gallup reported that 62% of Americans had never heard of the Co...

I've been skimming the various one-to-one computing initiatives because one-to-one computing is clearly on its way to Irvington . The ...

A small but growing number of schools in the Twin Cities metro are going in a good direction. Many are adopting Singapore's Primary Math...

"Teachers are needed more than ever, but in a very different capacity. We are no longer providing answers. We're providing the que...

Update here .

I was thinking the incredible results people find with retrieval practice sounded too good to be true, and now I'm worried they are: ...

I'm reading Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel's Make It Stick  in a mixed state of trepidation and fascination. Trepidation because th...

Utopia can't wait (As the parent of two autistic kids I've spent years of my life listening to Barney sing "Just Imagine......

In a new type of advanced government class at Seattle’s Garfield High, the students rarely sit quietly taking notes while their teacher sta...

I just spent 3 days writing 169 words. Good thing I'm not a poet.

Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy     April 16, 2014 A new scientific study fr...

Someone else commented that their impression was that the making tens stuff comes and goes relatively quickly in Singapore math as students ...

As per post below, here are some small examples of how frequent and explicit the making ten strategies are in addition and subtraction in Pr...

Peter Elbow on the composing process I remember posting this before (or at least discussing it in Comments -- I think I recall gasstationw...

Fundraising flier from Wellesley. Which pretty much rules out contributions from Wellesley grads who are: a) married to men and/or b) ...

Steve had some fabulous news on Thursday!!! (Has he posted?? In the comments somewhere??) If he hasn't, I'm not telling!