April 29, 2014
“The relation of school children to mathematics remains deeply puzzling after more than a decade of wide-scale experiment in the classroom and... Read More
March 31, 2014
“So, too, the mega-change in education that will undoubtedly come in the next few decades will not be a “reform” in the... Read More
March 26, 2014
“Many reformers have tried to jigger the school system, to improve it by making small changes in the hope that it would... Read More
June 6, 2012
“So there’s not much more you can do to improve things. Where you can make a big step forward and I’m seeing... Read More
June 5, 2012
“What is our fight really about? My reference to the Soviet Union comes from recognizing events there, not only as the most... Read More
May 24, 2012
“Skeptics of the possibility of change in schools often recall that it is now a hundred years since the American philosopher and... Read More
May 3, 2012
“Discussing laptops with local teachers reminded of my encounter in Thailand with Mr. Condom. His real name is Meechai, but he proudly... Read More
April 25, 2012
“They first learn engineering, then from there they progress to learning the ideas behind it, and then they learn the mathematics. This... Read More
April 23, 2012
“Jean Piaget’s very strong idea that all learning takes place by discovery is emasculated by its translation into the common practice known... Read More
April 19, 2012
“Why then should computers in schools be confined to computing the sum of the squares of the first twenty odd numbers and... Read More