With the inauguration of President-Elect Obama less than 30 days away, and with his selection of Arne Duncan, CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, as the Secretary of Education, there has been discussion in the press, on blogs,...
Read MoreI’ve returned to from a bit of hiatus and want to start with a discussion of how science might fare in the next Congress, and in the White House. A year and half ago I wrote a post entitled Meeting of the Minds on Global...
Read MoreThe theme that I’ve been writing about is change, alternative paradigms for learning, and how change needs to happen in our schools and schooling. There is a good chance that I won’t be making posts over the next few...
Read MoreGeorgia Bracey, from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, commented with an important question regarding the existence of schools that might be based on the humanistic paradigm (Paradigm 2) outlined in the previous post....
Read MoreWe are experiencing one of the most stressful economic downturns since the Great Depression. To deal with this calamity the Federal Government has initiated a bailout of the banking system in hopes of staving off a collapse of...
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