- Ravitch: Why Finland’s schools are great (by doing what we don’t) – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
- Reading, Writing, Empathy: The Rise of ‘Social Emotional Learning’ – Education – GOOD
- OpenClassroom
- Why schools should not grade character traits – The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post
- Winner: ‘Redesign the Report Card’ Project – Education – GOOD
- Anoka-Hennepin teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000 | The Republic
- More Than 10 Percent of College Papers Plagiarize Wikipedia – Education – GOOD
- Devlin’s Angle
- Superwoman Was Already Here: The Montessori Philosophy, Animated | Brain Pickings
- Teaching Good Sex – NYTimes.com
- TEDxKids@Brussels – Gabe Zichermann – Gamification – YouTube
Finland, Plagiarism and Gamification
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Apps, Studio School and YouTube
Sunday, November 27, 2011
- The Stupid Things You Do at Work (and How to Fix Them)
- Review: 10 Education Tech Startups from ImagineK12 to Watch | WiredAcademic
- Can a Facebook App Help College Students Study? – Education – GOOD
- Clutter can kill creativity and innovation | Unclutterer
- Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School | Video on TED.com
- Who’s On Top? Color-Coded Maps Rank States’ Education Performance – Education – GOOD
- Micheal Flaherty: The Latest Crime Wave—Sending Your Child to a Better School – WSJ.com
- Classes and Scores Soar With Incentives for A.P. Tests – NYTimes.com
- A Classroom Software Boom, but Mixed Results Despite the Hype – NYTimes.com
- Why YouTube Videos Will Never Replace Teachers – Education – GOOD
Humanism, Homework and Startups
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
- Atheism U? A New Elite University Focuses on Spreading Humanism | | AlterNet
- Daily Kos: Diane Ravitch at Save Our Schools
- What Will School Look Like in 10 Years? – NYTimes.com
- Structured homeschooling gets an A+
- Teacher’s iPad Experiment Shows Possibilities for Classroom Technology – Education – GOOD
- Quality Homework – A Smart Idea – NYTimes.com
- Imagine K12 Graduates Its First Class of Ed-Tech Startups | Hack Education
- swissmiss | Dear Great Teachers,
- News Post
- Why SAT Scores Are Down—And Why it Matters – Education – GOOD
- What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? – NYTimes.com
- College undergrads study ineffectively on computers, study finds: Students transfer bad study habits from paper to screen
- Why Making Creative Schools Requires Radical Change – Education – GOOD
Tunes, Textbooks and Incentives
Saturday, September 3, 2011
- Skipping School: A Look at Free Higher-Education Alternatives – Education – GOOD
- Freakonomics » Our Daily Bleg: How Should a Professor Incentivize Classroom Attendance?
- Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine
- 6 Beneficial Things They Made You Stop Doing in School | Cracked.com
- Teacher Collaboration Gives Schools Better Results – Miller-McCune
- Just Google It: How Search Engines Stunt College Students’ Research Skills – Education – GOOD
- Future of Education: Two Vancouver colleges will make history by giving iPads to over 1,000 new students – Techvibes.com
- Kno’s Textbooks Is Top Back-To-School iPad App With One Download Every 8 Seconds | TechCrunch
- Get Rid of Anxiety by Off-Loading Fears on Paper or by Humming a Tune
PISA, Plagiarism and Groupon
Saturday, August 27, 2011
- Demystifying International Tests: What Makes the PISA Special? – Education – GOOD
- Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Are Schools on the Verge of a Mobile-Phone Revolution? – Education – GOOD
- Why Are Great Teachers Leaving the Classroom? – Education – GOOD
- blog dds: 2011.07.23 – How I Dealt with Student Plagiarism
- Groupon helping CPS for back to school – Chicago Tribune
- Firewall, What Firewall? The Top Four Tech Hacks For Teachers – Education – GOOD
Justice, Friends and Future
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
- For the Good of All Students: Why I’m Marching for Education Justice – Education – GOOD
- Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’ | Cato @ Liberty
- 19 year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout Andrew Hsu is Changing Education
- How to fix higher education. – By William Pannapacker – Slate Magazine
- Missouri Forbids Teachers and Students To Be Facebook Friends
- Why Alternative Education Needs to Go Mainstream – Education – GOOD
- The future of education . . . 100 years ago | Daniel Pink
- EducateNcare Online Tutoring Educates Kids in Developing Countries
- Take a 20 Minute Break Between Subjects for Better Memory Retention
- Video – College Conspiracy :College education is the largest scam in U.S. history!: Information Clearing House News
- Where’s Education 2.0? | Digitizd
- How Obama’s Education Grants Hinder True Innovation – Education – GOOD
Coding, Homework and Google
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
- How I Failed, Failed, and Finally Succeeded at Learning How to Code – Technology – The Atlantic
- How Much Homework Is Just Right? – NYTimes.com
- Free Range: Google It : The New Yorker
- Fact Is, Students Have Never Known History : NPR
- The State of Summer School: Teens Are Hitting the Books Year-Round – Education – GOOD
- A Typeface For Dyslexic Readers
- Now You Can Tweet Your Way Into an MBA Program – Education – GOOD
- Imagination Summit Discusses Creativity In Schools – Education – GOOD
- Systematic Cheating Is Found in Atlanta’s School System – NYTimes.com
- A History of College Grade Inflation – NYTimes.com
Desks, Tracking and Khan
Friday, August 5, 2011
- How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education | Magazine
- Top 10 Invented Languages | Top 10 Lists | TopTenz.net
- Desks in the Hallway: A Texas School Takes Learning Out of the Classroom – Education – GOOD
- Can Schools Educate Kids for an Uncertain 21st Century? – Education – GOOD
- New York City Halts Teacher Bonus Program: Another Blow to Evidence-Resistant Ideology – Bob Sutton
- NYC Schools Approve $2.7 Million Deal with Murdoch-Linked Firm to Track Student Performance
- The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy | Hack Education
Scholarships, Computers and Atari
Monday, July 18, 2011
- 25 Bizarre Scholarships | Money Talks News
- College is a waste of time – CNN.com
- Kids who spot bullshit, and the adults who get upset about it – Bad Science
- NOT Everyone Should Attend College, BUT Let’s not Give up on it Entirely – Third Year MBA
- The Computer Delusion by Todd Oppenheimer
- Mark Zuckerberg To Belle Haven 8th Graders: “There’s No Shortcuts”
- Mr. Atari Wants To Bring The Video Arcade Into The Classroom (TCTV)
Architects, Bilingualism and Games
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
- A speech to graduating Harvard architects – TEDChris: The untweetable
- Debating the Value of College in America : The New Yorker
- The Bilingual Advantage – NYTimes.com
- What Your College Major Is Worth – Lifehacker
- Hey Kids, Build Your Own Video Games With Stencyl
- 4 “Facts” That Have Changed Since You Were In School
- Integration and the ‘no excuses’ charter school movement – Ezra Klein – The Washington Post
- A geek with a hat » Doing a startup taught me the value of staying in school
