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 – [...]
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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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
