The current government lockdown has caused all Americans to again reflect on the value that government services play in our lives. Those in public education chose their careers knowing that…
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The September 18th issue of Education Week carried a front page article about the brewing controversy over testing in California where the state has moved to suspend most of its…
I began my teaching career before the dawn of educational technology. My “hardware” was an overhead projector and my software consisted of filmstrips and cassettes. But over the course of…
As Congress continues to debate the future of NCLB and public schools in America develop transition strategies for new accountability requirements, the continuing truth of an old story comes to…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau 79 million students ages 3 and older will be heading back to school this September. Those schools will remain very familiar to the almost…
There has been a sea change within the education profession over the last four decades. The change is in the loss of the belief that evaluating the work of schools,…
Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts: Public School Technology Trends and Challenges for Teaching and Learning
Since 2002, the New Media Consortium, the Consortium for School Networking, and the International Society for Technology in Education have collaborated to publish the NMC Horizon Report to identify and…
Increasingly people are raising questions about the value of a college education. But the answer to that question is determined by what you mean and who you ask. Going to…
In 1998, some seven years after Dr. Seuss’s death, Jack Prelutsky and Lane Smith produced Hooray for Diffendoofer Day (Knopf Press) based on an unfinished manuscript by Theodor Seuss Geisel….
In her article in a Washington Post blog last month Katherine Schultz, Dean of the School of Education at Mills College, got it right. She summarized with clarity and brevity…
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