Aspiring teachers can find their way to teaching in one of two pathways, teacher education programs (TE) at public and private universities or alternative programs, such Teach for America (TFA). Although there are mixed...
Read MoreI’ve started reading Corporations are not People by Jeffrey Clements and with a forward by Bill Moyers. On this post, and many other blogs (1,2,3 for example), the “reform” of education in the interests of...
Read MoreToday, I wrote a comment on the United Opt Out National website which has been organized by prominent educators as a movement to end punitive public school testing. According to the organizers of United Opt Out National,...
Read MoreThis blog was begun in 2005 with the publication of the first edition of The Art of Teaching Science. Six hundred or so posts later, we find ourselves in at the end of 2011. This year, we published four eBooks based on blog...
Read MoreThere was an article in the Washington Post entitled In Russia, The Lost Generation of Science. The article, by Will England, focuses specifically on Pushchino, a little known city south of Moscow, and the status of science in...
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