It has been in vogue for at least a decade, maybe longer, to question American teacher’s abilities to educate its youth. According to some politicians, America has had a series of Sputnik moments, starting in 1957 with...
Read MoreIn 1982, John Naisbitt published, Megatrends, a book about trends that were transforming our lives. In the book he identified five states as “bellweather” states—states that were setting trends for the rest of...
Read MoreScience educators, especially during the past 50 years, have been instrumental in developing curriculum and teaching methods that are intelligent, prudent, reflective, and thoughtful. Underlying science education has been the...
Read MoreScience educators, especially during the past 50 years, have been instrumental in developing curriculum and teaching methods that are intelligent, prudent, reflective, and thoughtful. Underlying science education has been the...
Read MoreThis post was also published on Anthony Cody’s blog, Living in Dialog at Education Week, January 15, 2012. The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) wants to insure that every teacher in the U.S. is evaluated on the basis on...
Read MoreThis post was also published on Anthony Cody’s blog, Living in Dialog at Education Week, January 15, 2012. The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) wants to insure that every teacher in the U.S. is evaluated on the basis on...
Read MoreAspiring 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...
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