kitchen table math, the sequel

I have zero time to read this ... maybe not even to skim. Passing it along. Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values

Terrence Moore's The Story-Killers was a revelation to me in any number of ways, one being the idea that English teachers should not sp...

From Terrence Moore's  The Story-Killers : Whereas the Constitution of this Commonwealth hath declared it to be the duty of the Genera...

I was finally reading Michael Goldstein's terrific blog when I came across this post: E.D. Hirsch If you teach English, or you'...

After my musings about "real conservatives" versus "real liberals" and their respective (and hypothesized) reactions to ...

Comment left by Kai Musing  (I added the passage from CC): I haven't read the Moore book, but as a teacher in a major metropolitan sch...

froggiemama writes: I really like the Common Core standards. My district has dramatically improved instruction since they went to it 2 yea...

To their credit, the authors of the Common Core, while they are not completely clear on their aims of education, certainly repeat the same ...

I had just dipped back into Hirsch's The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them when Lisa J. posted a link to a lecture by Ter...

ALLISON : Here in the Twin Cities, we are experiencing multiple and opposing forces at the same time. Hainish, I see some low-SES kids i...

palisadesk writes : I haven't seen much if any "discovery learning" emphasis outside of Kindergarten for 15 years or so, and...

The opt-out movement may become a force to be reckoned with, if and when it organizes effectively. What has to happen, it seems to me, is t...

Just got off the phone with Chris, who is in Venice with his best friend D. They are hunkered inside a youth hostel tent or some such with ...

"If we end up starting the higher standards process all over again," he recommends, "let's agree that teachers must be w...

I need a good critique of Bloom's Taxonomy -- and, oddly, I'm not finding one. Neither Daniel Willingham nor E.D. Hirsch so much as...

Just discovered Pullum's paper buried in my Great Unread: Abstract Writing advisers have been condemning the English passive since th...

Katie and I have just finished 5 chapters of exercises for Ed's European history textbook! FIVE! A great weight has lifted from our...

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...