Latest Story An article in the New York Times by William J. Broad got my attention and in this article, I want to use Broad's research to show how education is being harmed by private funding. The article by William J. Broad is entitled Billionaires with big ideas are...
Copyright All rights reserved by Dartmouth Flickr Why are scientist abandoning their research, and if they are what does this say about the looming STEM crisis that the nation faces, at least according to the Obama Administration? In Chronicle of Higher Education...
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) seem to be following the historical trend of our infatuation with how technology can solve many of our problems in teaching and learning. Since 2008, MOOCs have emerged not only as individual and free online courses (such as those...
What's the Formula for Designing Rigorous Standards for Teacher Preparation? Read on to find out. The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) published recommendations for Accreditation Standards and Evidence: Aspirations for Educator Preparation....
In the last four posts, I have written articles that call out the National Council on Teacher Quality on the basis of their built-in bias against teacher preparation institutions, and their confrontational style of what they call research. In the last post I used...
In this post I am going to look at the question Is the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) Report on Teacher Prep Junk Science? In my last post, I suggested that the NCTQ report on teacher preparation is an example of junk science. Matthew Weinstein,...
