Key Education Issues Dividing Public, College Presidents, Study Finds – WSJ.com Surveillance cams at elementary schools monitor food intake – Boing Boing The Next Library | Digitizd Education and community colleges: Students, when you get a second chance, take it – latimes.com How Do You Get Kids To Learn? Have Them Draw Butts On The [...]
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Africans, Writing and Buildings
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Jonah Lehrer on Buildings, Health and Creativity | Head Case – WSJ.com WTOP.com – Graphic novels teach D.C. students about civics Africans Teach High Schoolers to Change Communities with Social Media Freakonomics » Deliberate Practice: How Education Fails to Produce Expertise Seth’s Blog: What’s high school for? Remarks By Governor Christie At Harvard Graduate School [...]
Peace, Facebook, and APs
Friday, May 6, 2011
Budget Cuts Lead Some AP Students to Enroll Online – WSJ.com Online A.P. Classes: More Students Clicking to Learn – The Juggle – WSJ YouTube – Module 02_01 | MIT 8.01SC Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 2010 John Hunter on the World Peace Game | Video on TED.com The Psychology of Cheating – NYTimes.com myEdu.com [...]
Socks, Artists and Loans
Monday, April 18, 2011
English school principal announces zero tolerance for mismatched socks – Boing Boing No Innovator’s Dilemma Here: In Praise of Failure | Epicenter | Wired.com Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist | Video on TED.com The Student Loans Scheme: a Gateway Drug to Debt Slavery The Art of Science Learning § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM Friends Don’t [...]
Circuits, NWP and Interns
Thursday, April 7, 2011
AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits | Video on TED.com Teaching Writers By Making Them Bloggers | Digitizd Official Google Blog: There’s no place like home for math education A Thousand Blog Posts for NWP: A Letter to Washington, DC – National Writing Project EFF student activist internships open to applicants – Boing Boing [...]
Bills, Gains and Diets
Friday, April 1, 2011
9 Bills That Would Put Creationism in the Classroom | Mother Jones When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real? – USATODAY.com Philadelphia School Battles Students’ Bad Diets – NYTimes.com Is everybody cheating on high-stakes tests? | Get Schooled D.C. to review high rates of erasures on school tests – USATODAY.com Skype [...]
Play, Spoken Word and Bonuses
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Let Kids Rule the School – NYTimes.com Get Paid to Teach Anything With New Online Education Platform Does giving teachers bonuses improve student performance? | Daniel Pink The Virtues Of Play | Wired Science | Wired.com Stump The Teacher: Innovation Day 2011 Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter … | Video on TED.com Separate [...]
Playing, Incentives and Khan
Sunday, March 13, 2011
One-Third of Students Get Little from U.S. Colleges – The Daily Stat – February 25, 2011 – Harvard Business Review nf/extramission beliefs/JANUARY Marginal Revolution: School Report Cards Work Do playful people get better grades in school? – Barking up the wrong tree Use A Wiki To Ace Your Classes Music Student Turns Entire High School [...]
Stress, Startups and Shanghai
Saturday, February 12, 2011
College Freshmen Stress Levels High, Survey Finds – NYTimes.com Scopes Weeps: Evolution Still Struggling in Public Schools | Wired Science | Wired.com Startups – So Easy a 12 Year Old Can Do It « Steve Blank Everblue.edu Poised To Become The Kaplan Test Prep Of Sustainability Shanghai Schools Push Students to Top of Tests – [...]
Google Apps, iPads and Kickstarter
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Google Apps Stocks Its Marketplace Full of Educational Apps A Day Without Chemistry Research Finds Text-Messaging Improves Children’s Spelling Skills Why iPads Aren’t Ready For Classrooms… Yet How to Fund Open Educational Resources: Department of Education or Kickstarter? McGraw Hill Gets In On the Mobile Education Market
