- 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
Coding, Homework and Google
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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
Divisions, Libraries and iPads
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
- 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 iPad
- Tornadoes, climate change, and real scientific literacy – Boing Boing
- Essential Skills You Can Teach Kids That May Save Lives – Lifehacker
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 Of Education On April 29, 2011
- Sh*t My Students Write Tumblr Is Hilarious & Sad
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 Makes It Easy To Keep Track Of School
- Higher Education’s Toughest Test
- Art Class 2.0
- swissmiss | Hyper Island Hard Facts
- For Students, What Is the “Facebook Effect” on Grades?
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 Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel
- Education Success: Finland vs. Tiger Mother, Asia Model – TIME
- Seth’s Blog: Buying an education or buying a brand?
- Semester at Sea – Study Abroad Voyages
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 In The Classroom: An International Social Network For Teachers
- Jonah Lehrer on Problems With SATs, GREs, the NFL Combine and Other Performance Tests | Head Case – WSJ.com
- Use Google Docs to Tag-Team Class Note Taking – HackCollege – Student-Powered Lifehacking
