March 22, 2011
“I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest,... Read More
March 17, 2011
“The girl who said to her teacher “I want to do that” and the first grader who said to the third grader... Read More
March 14, 2011
“If you need to know whether drug X reduces blood-pressure, you may fairly safely draw a negative conclusion from a “treatment model”... Read More
March 8, 2011
“For many children traditional school is a very dangerous place because you can be humiliated, embarrassed – scared of being found out... Read More
February 23, 2011
“Unless I am missing Tyack and Cuban’s point, this account is in the spirit of Tinkering Towards Utopia and in fact, exemplifies... Read More
February 14, 2011
In honor of Valentine’s Day… “Closely related to appropriation is another word, love. Einstein said, “Love is a better master than duty.”... Read More
February 7, 2011
On the NCTM Standards….. “I think they [the Standards] are going in the right direction but they are incredibly conservative, from my... Read More
January 31, 2011
“The phrase, “technology and education” usually means inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of... Read More
January 28, 2011
“…Only inertia and prejudice, not economics or lack of good educational ideas stand in the way of providing every child in the... Read More
January 27, 2011
“We emphasize that it is possible to create activities that connect many different students’ interests to various curricular areas, and to connect... Read More